Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever happens." said Dr. Trip, "the Kingdom of the Netherlands will remain on the gold standard." Like most prominent Dutchmen with long names, President Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip signs only his last, "Trip," to his letters...
Fault. Leland Stanford University maintains Professor Lydik Siegumfeldt Jacobsen and a vibration table by means of which he simulates the shocks and temblors of earthquakes. Miniature buildings on the table rock, collapse or remain upright as actual buildings might behave under natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40 stories are generally flexible enough to resist earthquake oscillations. Buildings of four to 30 stories run greatest risk because they tend to vibrate in unison with quakes. Last week's earthquake proved Professor Jacobsen's thesis. In Long Beach & vicinity mainly low structures were wracked and razed. Skyscrapers...
...last months I met with many difficulties and unexpected developments occurred. If I remain in office one more day, I will be blamed still more. Even if I die, my death would be of no advantage to the Government nor would it improve the situation. Therefore, I ask the Government to allow me to resign as a sign of its dissatisfaction and to appoint a capable successor...
Shades of Chang. Among the few defunct persons who are kept and will long remain in China's memory is Young Marshal Chang's dread, great father, Old Chang Tso-lin. Self-made, he rose from despised cooliehood through common banditry & murder to become the ruler of Manchuria. Capturing Peking in 1926 he made himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent...
...Nation of Bandits!" Meanwhile in London last week, numerous subjects of George V whose sympathies remain with China gathered outside British Broadcasting House and cried, "Shame! Shame!" when a limousine drove up with Chief Japanese League Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka. As he entered the building an English voice shouted, "Japan is a nation of bandits...