Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oriental haggle between Russia and Japan over the Chinese Eastern Railway reached the price stage last week. With Russian and Japanese troops massed near the border, the shadow-boxing stage seemed to have ended. The Japanese offered 80,000,000 yen (about $19,000,000). Russia fixed its asking price at 300,000,000 gold rubles (about $153,000,000). Japan was anxious to prolong the haggle as long as possible, believing that the longer Japan waits the cheaper the railway will become. It proposed a three-party commission to meet in Tokyo. On it Russia will have one vote...
...this was shadow boxing. First actual test of Nazi strength in Austria was the municipal election last week in the Tyrol's ancient capital, Innsbruck. Because the distribution of voters in Innsbruck closely parallels their distribution in the nation, foreign correspondents have come to regard Innsbruck as Austria's Maine. Chancellor Dollfuss flew to Innsbruck to make speeches. Ninety percent of the electorate turned out to vote...
...American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting from the primordial slime across the toes of fabulous princesses, heiresses and actresses who, swooning in ermine negligees with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they will reach from the pearly minarets of wicked Constantinople to the awesome depths of the profoundest ocean abyss yet plumbed by man ! Editorially the Journals were equally exciting. They flayed Tammany...
...works in 56 lands, with 1,606,376 members and $280,384,093 in property.) Y. M. C. A. luncheons all over the U. S. tuned in on the broadcast, heard Lord Allenby say: ''Here ... is erected an international monument to Peace and Brotherhood. Under its shadow, jarring sectarians may cease from wrangling; fierce passions be tamed; and men's minds be drawn to loftier ideals...
MURDER ON SHADOW ISLAND-Garnett Weston-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Multiple murders in the Thousand Islands, with discovery based on a single clue...