Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian parentage, brush-headed Guenther Gustave Rumrich, was arrested in a clumsy attempt to steal passport blanks. He promptly implicated several German-Americans in attempts to steal Army aircraft designs and military secrets. Five days after looking at the chart, the Grand Jury returned indictments in the most serious charges of espionage ever made by the U. S. against a friendly power...
...week Chinese reported having bombed and sunk four vessels of the Japanese fleet just above Anking. War-weary and discouraged, the Japanese admitted: 1) they might have to defer their drive on Hankow until autumn; 2) they might even discuss terms. Said Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki: "If any serious changes should occur in the future, it may be necessary for the Japanese Government to reconsider its decision not to deal with the Chiang Kai-shek regime." Chinese Communists in Hankow exultantly issued a communique: "Who imagines that we Chinese troops are unable to rout the Japanese Fascist militarists...
Until last winter Britain's Imperial Airways, Ltd. and associated companies had bumbled along the farthest flung set of air routes in the world without evoking any more serious criticism than a collection of pointed smoking-room jests. There was a fanciful yarn about India's long-delayed independence; the guess was that it might be coming via Imperial. Spicier was a tall tale about a woman who gave birth during a flight to India. Politely taxed by a flight clerk for boarding the plane in her condition, she became highly indignant. "I'll have you know...
...intelligent, but the ambition to make money for the sake of money should have been buried with the primitive Forty Niners. The tradition of money-making has delayed intellectual progress; it has tended to narrow the American mind and stifle the enthusiasm for social improvement. It is a serious handicap to the graduate in the process of adjusting himself to society...
Literature. In 1917, Dr. Wood relaxed from his more serious labors by composing and publishing a book of nonsense verses, illustrated by himself. Artistic ability seems to run in the Wood family. The scientist's daughter Margaret (Mrs. Victor C. White of Cedarhurst, L. I.), eldest of his four children, painted a portrait of him which will be presented by a group of friends to the University next week. It appears on TIME'S cover...