Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic was cut off. Troops with fixed bayonets lined the road. At strategic intervals the Shui-hui (volunteer fire companies) were drawn up with their hoses ready. They...
Only meagre reports come from Hanover as to the prowess of the Big Green sextet but indications point to the fact that no exceptional opposition may be expected. As in other years Dartmouth has been hampered by a scarcity of ice which has prevented the regulation number of practice sessions...
Mr. Wells' novels have the unsatisfactory quality of being on the very outer periphery of the near-great. They are never whole-hearted, but strike an irritating intellectual pose. They usually discuss ragged problems, with only that touch of originality which makes for interest. They are surprisingly readable, and they...
Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and Asahi long dominated the Tokyo and Osaka fields. In 1930 a potential rival, Hochi (News), passed into the hands of the man whom Motoyama's death left sitting on Japan's journalistic throne. He is Seiji Noma, "The Magazine King." A big round-faced...
"Herbert Hoover . . . unlawfully usurped legislative powers ... a policy inimical to the welfare of the United REPRESENTATIVE MCFADDEN He followed Thaddeus Stevens. States . . . unlawfully dissipated financial resources . . . injured the credit and financial standing ... his declaration of the moratorium has meant sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W...