Word: theys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Hailar, first important town occupied by the Russians last week, correspondents reported 12,000 Chinese casualties, lines of demoralized troops fleeing for the interior, looting as they went. In Dalai Nor several hundred terrified coal miners took refuge at the bottom of a shaft before the Soviet advance. Soviet...
-In Japan silkworms breed twice a year (April-May & July-August), in most other countrie-where they are raised, only once. In parts cf India and China breeding is almost continuous, but quality of the silk degenerates as hatchings increase.
Photographer Steichen was born in Milwaukee in 1879, son of a copper miner and a milliner. His boyhood was spent doing odd jobs. He was the first bicycle messenger in Milwaukee. Because he liked to draw and had bought a camera with his savings, he was apprenticed at 15 to...
Unctuous Robert Warwick appears as a wealthy gentleman who yearns after a lovely virgin (Rose Hobart) but gets instead the wife of one of his friends through her own chicanery in a darkened room. This lady's husband is in turn involved with Mr. Warwick's wife and...
Today in Europe the young Aguilars are famed. Ezequiel is the eldest although it would be difficult to tell, so much alike are they with small sleek heads, black pop eyes. But Ezequiel is the leader, plays the first lute, shows his authority by wearing wherever he goes a flowing...