Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tasker Howard Bliss: A general who has held the high posts of Chief of Staff and member of the Supreme War Council: a warrior who in peace seeks the means to prevent...
Levees. Popular confidence in the levee system has been shaken, if not destroyed, by their failure to prevent the present flood from inundating some 20,000 square miles and making homeless some 600,000 people. But expert opinion still clings to them as the backbone of flood prevention. Doubtless they will, in the future, be built higher and stronger, but, as far as can at present be determined, the levee will always carry the main burden of confining the river and to it all other methods will be not more than adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert...
...prevent a recurrence of these battles of his youth that Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler (see front cover) reached Tientsin, last week, commanding 1,800 U. S. marines previously stationed at Shanghai. He knew that the Southern Nationalist Chinese armies were steadily advancing on Peking (TIME, March 28 et seq.); but whether "Boxer"-trouble was brewing again he could not be certain. From Washington, President Calvin Coolidge ordered last week that no chances be taken, that the U. S. Legation and all U. S. citizens be removed to the port of Tientsin from inland Peking, should that city be seriously...
...German press took up discussion of this theory with great vigor last week, one editor declaring that to prevent people from being buried alive in future no body should be buried until "unmistakably decomposed...
...sincere author to put so much intense feeling into a book that it becomes stuffy, stifling. Author Smith's sincerity is evident and creditable, but the conflicts in the minds of his characters, though perfectly imaginable, are poorly imagined. They have not been viewed with sufficient perspective to prevent their growing maudlin. The action is unbalanced. It wobbles off into a mist of emotion and disappears from sight. Author Smith's last book, Topper (1926), was in a happier, lighter, suburban vein to which his readers may well wish he would return...