Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharpen the Blade. A unique segment of the Japanese army is the Kwantung army, and Itagaki is its master. He and his companions in conquest shaped it for a single purpose: the extension of Japanese sway over northern Asia. The creation of Manchukuo achieved part of this aim; only attack on Russian Asia can complete the scheme...
...reached such furnace temperature that he wrote in the journal Harijan: "The presence of the British in India is an invitation to Japan to invade India. Their withdrawal would remove the bait. . . . Free India would be better able to cope with the invasion. Unadulterated noncooperation would then have full sway...
...Michigan, has for two years headed Post promotion and publicity. He is an advertising man, a protégé of Curtis' Advertising Manager Fred A. Healy. This shift marked a new ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway over the Post's circulation department. (An adman became circulation manager.) He then proceeded to offset normally shrinking circulation by jettisoning the ultraconservative circulation methods which had long been Cyrus H. K. Curtis' pride...
...that Singapore has fallen, the loss of Rangoon would mean China cut off, and the ring for a return bout blasted into splinters. This man Nehru could, with the 425,000,000 Chinese that Chiang represents, hold sway over one-third of the population of the world. The natives of India, given their freedom, could defend themselves with the same phenomenal resistance which has been exhibited by the inspired populations of China and Russia-that same determination which was notably lacking in the peoples of, lulled Malaya...
Author George Stewart writes like an associate professor of English at the University of California, which he is. His human beings, scarcely human, sport such names as "Big Al" and "Dirty Ed" (author's quotes) and speak such atrocities as "Crise-tamitey." Blizzards "hold sway"; men "sally forth." Even his fascinating meteorological material is doctored with the characteristic cheapening devices of a lecturer who is accustomed to talking down. That the book can succeed at all against such malpractice is a tribute 1) to neatness and effort, 2) to the plain grandeur of the subject. Its literary honors will...