Word: round
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese statesmen tend to become highly intoxicated on moderate victories. Last week the fall of Canton and Hankow acted on Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and the Japanese Foreign Office like a triple round of old-fashioneds at a meeting of a Browning Club. It is no new thing for Japanese jingoes outside the Cabinet to boast that in a few years Japan will kick the West out of the East, but for the Premier and Foreign Office to go so far as they went in Tokyo last week was unprecedented...
...Anatol Shulkin, a pale, round-faced, baldish little professional known principally for his murals, had an exhibition of easel work at the Midtown Galleries just two years later than it had been scheduled. Reason: two summers ago his summer place in New Jersey burned to the ground and ten years' work burned with it. The Shulkin mettle was proved in several smooth, strong, pleasant figure compositions notable for harmonizing brilliant colors without making them yell...
...transmitter to improve the service it sends on directional beam to South America. Germany lists its short-wave transmitter that operates from Berlin's Haus des Rundfunks at 40 kw. Great Britain's Daventry, with top power at 50 kw., sends its short-wave voice round the world. The Netherlands has two 60 kw. stations at Hilversum, which operate with unique beams that turn in any direction (known to the Dutch as the "Holland merry-go-round"). The U. S. S. R.'s station RV96 at Moscow is listed at 100 kw., but its great power sings...
...Walther Funk, German Minister of Economic Affairs, was the plan that Germany pay the costs, Czechoslovakia do the work. Virtually certain of adoption, this plan would complete the economic subjugation of Czechoslovakia, insure Germany doubly against a trade blockade in the future, and, by thus binding ancient Bohemia all round with Reich boundaries, put the final proof to Bismarck's theory that whoever rules Bohemia is master of Europe...
...more than a decade the 10,516-ton merchantman President Adams has sailed the seaways of the world under the bold, white dollar-sign insignia of the Dollar Steamship Lines. But next week when the President Adams steams out of San Francisco for the Far East and round the world, the familiar $$ will be missing from her single stack. In their place will perch jaunty silver eagles, emblem of the new, Government-controlled American President Line...