Word: senning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last week he was fit again, beating his dummy. The Diet was about to convene again, and it was time to make a speech thanking the moppets for their medicine...
...world's all too numerous silver dollars-the Straits Dollar, the Hongkong Dollar, the Shanghai Dollar, the Mexican Dollar, the Sun Yat-sen Dollar, the Standard Chinese Dollar-the Canadian Government last week announced that it will add the George Dollar, first silver dollar in that Dominion. To make the George Dollar as different as possible from the old U. S. Dollar, Canada's mint will strike a coin only slightly larger in diameter than a 50?piece but nearly twice as thick. Doubtful whether Canadians really care for silver dollars, the Royal Canadian Mint will strike...
...SEN-Lyon Sharman-John Day ($3.50). Full-dress biography of China's Washington...
...York: Herbert Lehman, a friend of President Roosevelt's appeared tonight virtually certain of victory over Robert Moses, his Republican adversary in the gubernatorial race. Sen. Royal S. Copeland, Dem., seemed reasonably certain of reelection...
...himself what he and other high officers could do for China while simple soldiers were buttoning themselves up. Suddenly General Ho was struck by the great fact that China unquestionably has too many generals. In a passion of self-abnegation Full General Ho dispatched a petition to President Lin Sen at Nanking asking to be demoted to the rank of a mere Major General. "The rules governing promotion," darkly added Full General Ho, "should in future be observed...