Word: slanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sculpture which he described last winter (TIME, Jan. 30). Cutting through a ridge to shift his railroad, Dr. Herzfeld came upon hundreds of cuneiform tablets in the Elamite (pre-Persian) language which he hoped would give the battles of Marathon and Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum's veteran Excavator Charles Leonard Woolley, unearthed a temple dedicated to the moon-goddess Nin-Gal. complete with shrines and food preparation chambers. Also discovered...
...bomb which blew a great hole in the floor near M. Sarraut. Few months later another bomb, hurled directly at the Governor-General, missed him by inches, rolled among a crowd and blew twelve Chinese to bits. Indomitable M. Sarraut continued to appear publicly on all occasions while slant-eyed, superstitious natives murmured, "There comes 'The-No-Can-Be-Killed...
...billion-dollar Japanese holocaust at Shanghai (TIME. Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.) several million dollars worth of damage was done by Japanese bombing planes. If and when they ever return, China hopes to be ready with a hot reception. Lately 75,000 slant-eyed Shanghai patriots cheered a zipping U. S. Curtiss Hawk combat plane just right for shooting down bombers. While they gasped and squealed, the 700-h.p. ship tore around Shanghai at 200 m.p.h., dived at 350 m.p.h. to annihilate an imaginary bomber and flattened out with a roar like 47 Chinese dragons just above the head...
Nearly every little Chinese army is normally for sale. But a serviceable, three-ship navy hawking itself up & down the China coast is something novel. Last week slant-eyed millions chuckled as unexpected sales resistance was encountered by mutinous officers and crews dauntlessly resolved to sell two of the best and most historic cruisers under the Chinese flag and to throw in a training ship for good measure...
...must drag along the intellectually uncurious? I should prefer to tutor every man as intensively as he desires, and then have no regrets over those who fail the divisional examinations. (But of course if the tutoring system is merely a substitute for the widow, I have the wrong slant on everything...