Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quietly jubilating, British and Japanese businessmen in Shanghai spoke last week of "the most severe blow to American business prestige in China since the founding of the International Settlement in 1843." They were referring to the fact that in Shanghai's U. S. Court grave, tee- totaling, confidence-inspiring U. S. insurance, banking & real estate Tycoon Frank Jay Raven, founder of the famed "Raven Interests," which once boasted assets of $70,000,000 (TIME, June 17), had just been convicted of embezzlement on seven counts and sentenced to five years in prison at McNeil Island, Wash...
...Schoolboys often outstrip routine work in the Freshmen year. There should be frank anticipation of the college course, with the view to shortening the latter, for youth's brain power is underestimated and the process of education before settlement into a gainful occupation and marriage has been slow and long. The prolonged period of infancy characteristic of the human species has been safeguarded to the detriment of the species...
...cigar, tried to look urbane. Senator Clark, with round pink face and snapping eyes, sat waiting to ask sharp, insinuating questions. One of the founders of the American Legion, the son of the late great Speaker of the House knew War at first hand. Before the Committee for settlement was a scandalous question: Should J. Pierpont Morgan be hated as a warmonger second only to Kaiser Wilhelm? Did U. S. blood on the fields of France save his financial skin...
...customers. Suddenly Yvon Robert stripped off overcoat, sweater, trousers, tried to pin O'Mahoney then & there. Dragged away, Wrestler Robert sat at the ringside, heckled the champion who was downing Judson with ease. O'Mahoney, stung by the verbal pricks of this upstart, demanded an immediate settlement. Spang into the ring flounced Challenger Robert, collared O'Mahoney, held his shoulders to the mat for 30 seconds. The Irishman kicked himself free, floored the Canadian with two blows. Up Robert rose, bashed O'Mahoney through the ropes. While pawky Wrestler Robert loudly claimed the championship...
...deacon in the Baptist Church, Dr. Compton attends nearly every Sunday, is actively interested in missions, Y. M. C. A. and settlement work. Like Britain's Eddington, he sees in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (which avers that the behavior of electrons is unpredictable) evidence that man is not an automaton in a mechanistic universe, but a free agent responsible to his Creator. "Science can have no quarrel," says Arthur Compton. ''with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as His children...