Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Important as may be the material benefits of the Hull treaties, their diplomatic importance is far greater at this stage of the game. The vote tomorrow will sound the keynote of future policy. At this crossroads, O.G.P. Unity appears to have nothing constructive to offer...
After six years of war, blockaded China is weaker economically and militarily than at any stage of the conflict with Japan. The country is in the throes of the worst inflation since the Sung Dynasty-in the Twelfth Century, just before the invasion of Genghis Khan, when rocketing prices in Peking would change between morning and evening. Malnutrition and privation are slowly undermining the vitality not only of the Army, but of the many intellectuals and younger office holders on whom China's future leadership largely depends. Inadequate material help from America and continued delay in the only quick...
...Chalupec), 43, siren of the silent movies, was welcomed back to Hollywood for a comedy role in Hi Diddle Diddle. Said the twice-divorced Valentino-age vamp, who left the U.S. in 1932 to make German and French films: "All I want now is to marry, have children, and stage another great success in pictures...
...this haunting subject the businessmen ranged from agreement with Johnston to approval of the Los Angeles Chamber's Frank P. Doherty: "Full employment is possible only in a slave state." But most of them were willing to let Johnston do their phrasemaking, to let him stage a somewhat synthetic "unity with agriculture and labor" convention...
...meeting the schedule. But plans washed up the first two days. Sorry to say, some girls who never liked rain before actually blessed the elements for spoiling things. But honestly now, girls, wouldn't it have been better that way--all pals together, as it were--than having to stage that hasty and inglorious practice last Sunday at 1945, trying to arrive at the proper way to turn in columns of twelve, before the reviewing stand of our Sunday afternoon dates left on the steps of Briggs Hall...