Word: threads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, M. Herriot's Opposition, and, it was feared, some of the Government parties, saw in the British Premier's scheme the snapping of a vital thread which enabled France to control reparations questions through the Reparations Commission (TIME, July 14). The Premier was forced to see the logic of this argument, and in order to clear the matter up the two Premiers decided...
...constitute one full chapter in the history of Japan. During all that time the Pacific Ocean, so illimitable then to us, has been growing more narrow daily. The East and the West, which stood aloof without a thing in common except their common humanity, have been by that wonderful thread drawn closer and closer together, until today we stand shoulder to shoulder as friends and allies, defying the power of the force of evil to destroy that splendid heritage which we are agreed to share as common heirs...
...THREAD OF ENGLISH ROAD-Charles S. Brooks-Harcourt ($3.00). Author Brooks went cycling across the southern English hills, but he announces on Page One of his account of it that: "We must expect no high excitement. I cannot 'boast even of so much as a footpad; nor shall we meet a single Duke whom we may later hand about the hearth among our homespun neighbors and say thus he spoke and thus we answered." But in spite of all this, or very likely because of it, he has transcribed an altogether delightful account of this picturesque ramble. He insists...
Spiderweb stockings, made of thread so fine that it takes 279 miles of it to make a pound of silk, are the latest novelty in women's dress at Berlin. Dealers stated that they were only for show and could not outlast a single jazz...
...thousand gripping novels. A voluntary bath of blood unfortunately washed the glamor from this old Russian life and left the rest of the world amazed and horrified by tales of the temperamental Red gone politically and economically wild. To the conservative the last twist to Russia's woeful thread of fate is given by Charles Recht's report that Russia is using the United States as a model and trying to "Americanize its theatres, schools, and laws...