Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, with greater impartiality than most diplomatic arbitrators show, the River Hai (pronounced High) flooded Tientsin-Japanese and British Concessions alike. Barbed wire on wooden trestles and wooden sheds for searching and stripping were washed away. The barbed wire blockade was off; a water blockade-of the whole city-was on. ^ In Shanghai, Sergeant W. L. Kinloch of the International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting...
...hearty, blue-eyed, English country gentleman who breeds horses for his own amusement, paints them for the pleasure of other British sportsmen like himself. Born in Suffolk 60 years ago, a farmer's son, he studied art in Paris, went home when he was 19 to show his first three pictures (country scenes) at the Royal Academy. Soon after, he started to paint horses and prospered on the fat commissions handed him by the horse-loving...
What they saw on the tennis courts was equal to what has been seen in top-notch white-folks' tournaments this summer. Through the efforts of the A. T. A. directors, who are eager to show the snooty U. S. L. T. A. that Negroes can be developed into high-grade tennists, the colored race-especially its intelligentsia-has become extraordinarily tennis-conscious. In Negro colleges tennis is a major sport, exceeded in popularity only by football (50% of the students play tennis). Wealthy Negroes like Chicago's "Mother" Seames, a 70-year-old, 200-lb. tennis enthusiast...
Last week the first of the 1940 models had their previews. First to be shown were new Packards, priced $120 to $400 under '39 models. Next day Hudson showed its new line, including a low-priced six, a new, more powerful eight. Nash and Willys-Overland followed. Chrysler will show its new cars next week. Ford, General Motors and Studebaker all expected to show their new lines well before the New York show...
...contrast to Goodyear, which is decentralized, Goodrich is concentrated in Akron, blames 25-75% higher wages for its inability in the past to show as high a profit margin...