Word: present
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomats kept absolutely mum, and at Nanking the Chinese Nationalist Government would neither affirm nor deny that peace had been patched up. In Moscow, however, the Soviet Government's official news organs Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News) announced categorically that China had accepted Soviet terms for settlement of the present crisis-provoked when the Chinese Government deported high Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned by Russia, jointly operated by China and Russia) and clapped into jail as "dangerous propagandists" numerous subordinate Soviet employes of the line (TIME, July...
...lost the so-called "War of the Pacific" (1879-83), and victorious Chile then seized Tacna-Arica as war spoil. Negotiations begun with President Harding as arbiter, carried virtually to conclusion under President Coolidge, and topped off in the first few months of the Hoover regime, resulted in the present 50-50 compromise of giving Tacna back to Peru. Last week in Lima, maids and matrons deliriously dancing on "Joy Day" brought a crown of solid gold laurel leaves to bantam President Leguia, ecstatically crowned him "The Hero of Tacna's Delivery...
...print its text in full. With a spurt of news instinct, Editors Dixon and Hunter once announced on the front page: "For London news, see last page." Such back-paging, however, lasted but a short while. Soon Gazette readers were again being entertained by "The Assyrian Practice of Marriage," "Present State of Algiers," "Advices from Petersburg...
...takeoff from Mines Field, Los Angeles, among the celebrities present were Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose $200,000 for exclusive reporting rights made the world flight possible at this time, and pert Cinemactress Marion Davies, Hearst friend. A radio announcer saw them together and to the listening world exclaimed: "Here's Hearst, big publisher-backer of this epochal flight. And who's with him? None other than dainty Miss Davies. Won't you speak a few words, Miss Davies?" Miss Davies, somewhat tremulously, complied. The announcer then called on Mr. Hearst. He refused...
...talking dolefully about great teams before they went into action, lately spoke to a group of coaches at Northwestern University's summer school. Said he: "Pessimism as applied to football has been worked to death. It is time to swing back the other way. . . . Hereafter I will present a more or less radiant picture of my prospects." Of Notre Dame's nine games this fall, not one will be held in South Bend...