Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst bought Outcault away from Pulitzer. It depicted a street gamin who wore a yellow night shirt, on which was inscribed all the gutter chatter and slang of that day, and it was out of that incident that the term "yellow journalism" was coined...
...thus: No constructive legislator, in a large sense, he nevertheless gets things for South Carolina (jobs, public buildings, waterway developments, a new judicial district). He frequently says what many another Senator thinks but dares not utter. He is more of a Senate character than a Senate statesman. His term expires March...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Treasury to borrow on new short term bills...
...another school term is not far off. If it revealed by no other sign than the number of editorials appearing on the subjects of Commencement, A Life's Work, Farrewell, Alma Mater, and other of a like nature, it is well heralded to end the school year in every college paper which tell the reader that the end is near...
...Soong Dynasty" was a frightful term to use to the President of China's earnest young Republic. By it Marshal Feng meant the governing group which has ruled the Nationalist Party for so long; a group headed by Finance Minister T. V. Soong, President Chiang Kai-Shek, Minister of Commerce H. H. Kung. The last two are both married to sisters of Finance Minister Soong. Potent Mme. Sun Yat-Sen. Dr. Sun's widow, is another Soong...