Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang Kai-shek are temperamentally poles apart, but even after the war began they continued to work together. As deputy leader of the Party, Wang Ching-wei followed the Government on its trek from Nanking to Hankow to Chungking. But last winter he took his sons out of school, sent them out of the country, packed up his own belongings and one night left Chungking secretly for Hanoi, French Indo-China, and Hong Kong. The old Oriental instincts for compromise had got the better of him, and he declared himself for "peace" with Japan. Chiang Kai-shek read...
...decide whether to support his country in a particular war. When the U. S. entered the World War, more than 64,000 citizens applied, on grounds of conscience, for exemption from combat service. But fewer than 4,000 went further, demanded exemption from noncombatant duty. Most of these were sent to farms and camps; 486 were sentenced to prison, 17 to death. (But no one was executed; at the war's end all sentences were commuted...
...their heads. Idea was that the interference from this headgear would prevent the birds from taking their bearings by terrestrial magnetism. They got back to Butyny all right, despite the magnets. That was not deemed conclusive enough to rule out all possibility of magnetic guidance, however, so the professor sent six more Polish storks to London this spring, and they too wore magnetic hats when set free...
...tell a well-designed teacup should precede precious talk about Giotto; and he urged the purchase and study of contemporary work by U. S. designers and artists. The Museum lived up to this so consistently that in 1925, when Dana was in Italy and a rich Newark lady sent him $10.000 with which to acquire old Italian things, he saved the money and persuaded her to let him spend it on American paintings. The next year the Museum moved into a $750,000 building given by Department Storeman Louis Bamberger, held a long remembered exhibition of New Jersey leather products...
British Labor's newspaper, the London Daily Herald, reported Rumania's smooth-cheeked Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu forgot his umbrella while calling on the Greek Patriarch at Istanbul, hastily sent a man back to fetch it, exclaimed in consternation: "What is a diplomat without his umbrella...