Search Details

Word: pinging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Death and personal injury indemnification - for the death of two members of the crew of the Panay and the captain of the Mei Ping, and injury of 74 other persons on board the Panay and other vessels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Good Neighbors | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Embassy by a subordinate official of the Japanese Foreign Office. Thus the Imperial Japanese Government paid in full as quietly as possible the following itemized bill, presented by Uncle Sam after Japanese bombers sank the U. S. river gunboat Panay and Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s tankers Met Ping, Mei Hsia and Mei An (TIME, Dec. 20) : Property losses - Navy Dept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Good Neighbors | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...moving the Ping-Pong tables to the basement, where players have asserted they are willing to carry on, what is now a game room could easily be turned into a reading room. At present non-residents can study only in the common room, where piano playing, chess and checker games, and conversations are liable to interrupt the quiet at any moment. Books can be acquired with almost as little trouble and expense as a room. Out of the vastness of Widener Library a few books can well be spared to start the collection at Dudley Hall. The commuters themselves will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER READING ROOM | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

...Prime Minister said: "As a result of my conversation today with the Italian Ambassador, I never was more convinced of the right of any decision than that which the Cabinet took Sunday" [drop ping Eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Expulsion of Eden | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

There is a promise of topical trippery when Don Ameche and Cesar Romero set off across the Atlantic in a plane loaded with a buoying cargo of ping-pong balls (a device actually adopted by Crooner Harry Richman & Aeronaut Dick Merrill; TIME, Sept. 14, 1936, et seq.). And there is a promise of native warmth when the plane plops down in the midst of peasant festivities in a Norse village. But neither promise is kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 212 | 213 | 214 | 215 | 216 | 217 | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | Next