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...faithful servant and companion, was usually pictured by his side. But China had no lions and most Chinese had never seen one. At last some sharp-eyed follower of the Emperor noticed how strikingly the Court's tawny little dogs resembled Buddha's lion. Eunuchs thenceforth strove to breed lion-like characteristics into the dog. In time it progressed from being an imitation lion, became itself a sacred symbol...
...hundred and fifty favored subscribers received a bewildering book last week. Most of them strove earnestly to interpret it because of the prominence of its illustrator, pretty, dark-haired Maude Phelps Hutchins, wife of young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago. Its title was Diagrammatics...
...Minister of Austria-Hungary; of heart disease; in Vienna. Minister in Bucharest at the start of the War, he later dictated the peace terms to defeated Rumania, aided in forcing the treaty of Brest-Litvosk on Bolshevik Russia. Foreseeing ultimate defeat and consequent disintegration of the Dual Monarchy, he strove for peace, was made a scapegoat for his pains...
...Room is a rather bleak expanse which suppresses rather than fosters congeniality, the dining room with its undershot alcove has a bit of the steamship about it but is an interesting architectural device and serves its proper purpose. Confronted by the Statler-like dining room of Standish the designers strove mightily to transform it into a presentable library and, to the astonishment of all, succeeded admirably. The walls are done in two tones of green while the furnishings are in red. It is reputed to hold the third largest collection of books in the House Libraries, somewhere around...
Bitter enemies, former Premier Sun Fo and former President Chiang Kai-shek strove like two men in a swiftly turning whirlpool to grasp what straws of Power they could...