Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China's slim, brisk Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week got the ominous news that four Japanese major generals were closeted in Dairen to draw up a "new policy" toward China. Unless Chiang's Nationalist Kuomintang Party starts acting as if it were really pro-Japanese, Japan, according to the four major generals, will feel obliged to detach China's five rich northern provinces from Nanking's rule, set up puppet governors and collect revenues...
Stones for 2035. With such exceedingly simple words Adolf Hitler turned the key that unlocks German hearts again & again last week in Nürnberg. To 50,000 youths he cried: "I want you as slim as tigers, as fast as greyhounds, as hard as stone! Friendship will be accorded only to the strong, as the strong alone deserve friendship. We evaluate a young man by the punishment he can take. I make you responsible to help me make Germany strong...
...only other moment when Little really seemed to be in danger occurred the next afternoon when he was playing slim 23-year-old Walter Emery of Oklahoma City. Far from friendly, the tone of this match had been set the day before when Emery, not in the least awed by reaching the final of the first Amateur he ever played in, admitted being thoroughly annoyed when Little refused to pose with him for photographers. They finished the morning round all even. Emery sat down in the club house, ordered lunch and arrogantly advised the waiter to "take an aspirin...
Distinctly unprofessorial in appearance, slim, wiry Dean Boucher is given to sport clothes, neither looks nor acts his 49 years. Students' chief criticism of him is that he slaps too many backs...
...page letter from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt. Promptly taken up by Saturday Evening Post, Author Flandrau continued to write, less frankly, a series of sketches dealing with college life in general, with two amiable, intelligent, irresponsible Harvard boys in particular. Last week Author Flandrau prefaced a slim collection of these sketches with a long, ingratiating introduction almost entirely given over to an account of the formidable difficulties that a candid young writer faced in a period when editors were cautious to the point of timidity...