Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ideal for such fighting is the ancient Chinese city of Shanhaikwan, the perfect corner. Surrounded by its own 40-ft. wall and backed by China's Great Wall, Shanhaikwan is a 20th Century Thermopylae, the gateway defending China proper from Manchurian invaders. Last week several thousand Chinese soldiers, armed chiefly with old-style rifles, were ordered to defend Shanhaikwan against the simultaneous assaults of Japanese artillery (19 pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf...
...puts public funds to private use for the national welfare; 2) relief which supplies jobless millions with a "dole" not very different in principle from Socialist recommendations; 3) Domestic Allotment which, when enacted, will take money from one class to give to another class; 4) Inland Waterways Corp., a perfect example of government-in-business. Because the War Department ordered the transfer of troops from Fort Russell, Tex. to Kentucky, Tom Connally, Texas' long-haired, small-footed Senator, raced to Secretary Hurley to protest "this arbitrary, autocratic and unwarranted action." He was, he said, "coldly and bluntly told that...
...Paris grumbling old Auguste Rodin took her as a pupil. To perfect her knowledge of anatomy she practiced dissection at the Royal College of Surgeons for three years. Recognition followed. Museums in France, Britain and the U. S. bought her work; she has been decorated by both France and Jugoslavia. To the general public perhaps best known works are the stone group at the entrance of London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...
...beliefs which he expressed in office and through the syndicated press, left him politically speaking, a discredited and pathetic figure. It is obvious that the nation has gone beyond Mr. Coolidge's exceed and will not return to it. There remains only the memory of his personality and its perfect adequacy for what America demanded of its chief executive when he was in office. How much attention historians will give to his achievements in government and how they will estimate them is a question for later generations. Americans in general will remember him as a dourly attractive figure who intrigued...
...Certainly there has been a perfect orgy of this sort of thing," cried Baron Rankeil-lour. "I greatly fear that some of His Majesty's ministers and former ministers have forgotten the context of their oath...