Word: sine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 1937 James had his first taste of war when he was sent out to China to help cover the Sine-Japanese conflict. That December when the Japanese army was threatening Nanking, the American embassy staff and all other nationals were evacuated to the Panay...
...among the lower income groups of the population, particularly in the rural areas, that collective medicine finds its most crying need. While state hospitals and charitable institutions have made enormous strides in the past, more frequent medical care in virtually every part of the country is a sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse...
...votes were unanimous by show of hands, accompanied by rousing cheers. By this means the Supreme Soviet, before adjourning sine die, elected the Praesidium. This body of 37 members is not a cabinet. Indeed, members of the Russian Cabinet, called the Council of People's Commissars, are barred from the Praesidium. Stalin- not a member of the Cabinet, therefore eligible-was elected an ordinary member of the Praesidium. Although "where Stalin sits is the head of the table," amiable old Mikhail Kalinin was elected chairman of the Praesidium, i. e., "President of Russia...
Opposing views of the Sine-Japanese controversy hold the center of the stage at the third general meeting of the Student Union in Phillips Brooks House tonight...
Pictures, of course, are the sine-qua non, of nice, attractive make-ups. When the victim happens to be an artist's model, and a photographer's artist model at that, everybody has just oodies of fun and he result often finds Mr. Justice Roberts staring unashamed into the coy, but deeply soulful eyes a trifle distorted by the wirephoto process, of a girl, whose spirit is forever fresh (copyright, 1937, by "Inside Detective" and "Front Page Detective Magazines...