Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office and gave him the talking to of his life. At Tokyo Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, the British Ambassador, also protested, conferred for a half hour with Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita on a basis for negotiation of a settlement of the British-Japanese deadlock at Tientsin. One point upon which negotiations waited was the Japanese insistence on holding conferences, not in Tokyo, but in Tientsin, with the British holding out for conversations right in Tokyo. On this point it seemed unlikely that the Japanese Foreign Office of the mild-mannered, hard-working Mr. Shigemitsu, who has tried his best...
Peasants have other means of resistance. Unless it is tendered on the point of a bayonet, a Japanese yen-backed note from the new Japanese-dominated North China Federal Reserve Bank is not honored at face value. Last spring in the Japanese-occupied areas of North China, the Chinese mysteriously forgot to plant their usual cotton crop. Unless the Japanese can debauch the Chinese in captured sectors with opium, as they are trying to do, this sort of passive resistance might go on for decades...
Best thing in The Sculptor's Way is Author Putnam's pellucid outline of human and animal anatomy. An acknowledged expert on the subject, she believes that sculptors should know it thoroughly before they go in for compositions in mere "mass" or abstraction. Her favorite point: that any animal's bony structure is essentially the same as man's. A horse's hocks are his heels; birds have knees...
...Wages will never settle the labor problem because the saturation point will never be reached," wrote Arthur Vandenberg and his colleagues. "Wage increases create the same result as the serving of red meat to animals at the zoo-satisfaction for the moment, a more ravenous appetite later...
...approval of the U. S. Attorney General for purchase of a Tommy gun), to the U. S. Marines, to many a European and South American army, Thompsons were sold. The General's son, Colonel Marcellus H. Thompson, third in the family line to graduate from West Point, resigned from the army and went into the business as vice president and general manager...