Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural lust for leisure might win out. But the advantages to the student would seem to outweigh these objections. Once over with the red-devils of College Boards, he will have one year to break away from the repetition of French verb forms and reach out into the rich literature of the language. His preparation for college might consist, not of learning dates in American History, but in coordinating the social, economic and historical background of the field...
...course, the special nature of brass technique requires a special type of writing by composers. Skillful handling, as in the bombastic theme near the end of Strauss's Don Juan and in the rich romantic treatment of Brahm's Fourth Symphony (which will be played this week) exploits the qualities of power and sonority which make the brass so valuable in the modern orchestra...
Sinkiang Province (area: 705,769 sq. mi.; population: 4,360,000), sometimes called Chinese Turkestan, is a fairly rich, comparatively unexploited, thoroughly exotic area. Its principal exports have been wool, camel's-hair, sheep guts, gold, jade, fine horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears' paws). The huge province has never been properly integrated with China, and since about 1930, Russian influence has almost amounted to domination. Since economically Sinkiang is already virtually a Russian province, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, no lover of Communists, may well have seen the sense of making concessions there...
...from nearly a month of desultory negotiations in Moscow with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, negotiations which finally collapsed. When he went to Moscow, Mr. Saracoglu was believed to be acting not only for Turkey but also as "honest broker" for Rumania in the touchy question of Bessarabia, the rich province which Rumania seized from Russia in 1918. Last week, after King Carol had received full particulars of what Ambassador Stoica had been able to learn from the Turkish Foreign Minister, Bucharest bigwigs gloomed and the New York Times's correspondent observed that "the news Stoica brought from Ankara...
From time to time since then, Harold Ickes has repeated his thesis, with trimmings. Last week he returned to his attack in a book (America's House of Lords, an Inquiry into the Freedom of the Press*) richly documented with I-told-you-so's. America's House of Lords develops the same thesis which its author outlined on the air last winter: there is no danger that the U. S. will impose any Government control upon newspapers, but it doesn't have to: the press is already censored by its business connections and advertisers. Publishers...