Word: plums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coolidge Debating Prize, plum of the Freshman debating season, went to John W. Sullivan '43, after a closely contested tournament last Friday, consisting of individual speeches on freedom of speech...
Chinese legend declares that Chin P'ing Mei (Metal Vase Plum-blossom) was written by a famed 16th-Century Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600 subtly poisoned pages. No believer in such legend, Arthur Waley, expert on Chinese literature, says the novel's authorship is doubtful, like that of China's other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin...
...Wild plum was in spectral blossom, dogwood lurked in the woods, the purple-flowered Judas trees ranged the red-clay roads, already deep with dust. But for two days snub-faced Dr. Ross Mclntire, White House physician, kept the boss indoors, made him rest in the lounge chair by the fireplace in the pine-paneled living room. Midweek came before Dr. Mclntire permitted the President to disport his 6 ft. 2 in. in the buoyant, tepid waters of the glass-roofed pool. Canada's plumpish Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King lay in swimming trunks on a cot while...
Treasure Trove. The "New Order In Asia" is to Japan what the Monroe Doctrine is to the U. S. The Netherlands Indies comprise the juiciest colonial plum in the world. Only one other area produces more rubber, three others more oil. Japan gets one-quarter of its oil there. The islands export sugar, coffee, quinine, tobacco, copra, spices, cattle, timber, coal, tin, gold, silver-all of which Japan can use. Their 60,727,233 inhabitants are a huge market for Japanese textiles and cut-rate manufactures...
...when the Balkan invasion takes place, it is a problem to decide who will do the invading. Italy will want to take over the rich plum of Hungary...