Word: spurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chugging juggernaut that carried Japanese troops to their scrappy victories. Soon Hsinking, the point of the S. M. R. spear, became the capital of puppet Emperor Henry Pu Yi (TIME, March 5, 1934). Beyond that point, S. M. R. trains have been unable to go on over a spur of the Chinese Eastern to the great Russianized city of Harbin because prudent Tsar Nicholas II had Russia's rails spaced 3½ inches farther apart than Japan's. Last week, following the purchase of the Chinese Eastern from Russia, Japanese got ready to move 150 miles...
Since every Soviet citizen tries to get away from home and down to the Russian Riviera during vacation, all lodgings and food in that favorite area have been sharply upped in price this summer by the State to help Transport's Commissar discourage human transport and spur freight. Should Kaganovich ever cease to be Stalin's pet, Russians agreed last week, he can fairly be made the star defendant in a Bolshevik "Propaganda Trial" to discover what "capitalist hireling" sabotaged the entire passenger transport service of the Soviet Union...
...past, the Japanese have advanced with bewildering speed and have then maliciously thumbed their noses at the rest of the world. Downing Street, Rue d'Orsay, Pennsylvania Avenue have been caught sleeping under the table, and, harried by an eager press, have attempted to formulate a policy on the spur of the moment. The result of the 1931 flasco was our stupid non-recognition policy and our futile attempts to cooperate with the League of Nations...
Young Fred's mother who calls herself "Mignon" and fights for "enlightened temperance" did a real civic turn when she gave the festival her energy and name. Socialites needed her spur to be interested. But the 10,000 amateurs required no prodding. The foreign-born elements have been as faithful to their music as to their native food. The industrial groups have developed swiftly in the past two years. Chevrolet has a glee club of 40, directed by David Redwood who works in the die room at the forge plant. Hudson has a glee club and a band. General...
...Elitarism" is the contribution to political science of Colonel Walery Slawek, spur-clinking Premier and close crony of the Marshal. Last week Colonel Slawek was hailed as "Father of the Polish Constitution." As a bow to Democracy it retains Poland's democratically elected Chamber but strips it of power by giving the President an absolute veto. The Senate is replaced by "The Assembly of Elders," one-third appointed by the President, the other two-thirds by Poland's new official Elite, namely males who have won either of two war decorations, the Virtuti Militari Order or the Independence...