Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tighter Race...
...home, the Government of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was forced to pull Japan's belt a little tighter to cope with the gnawing of war on her financial stomach. It decreed that some 47 types of articles (most important: cotton cloth and iron products), would no longer be produced for Japanese consumption. As soon as present stocks are exhausted, the populace will switch to staple fiber, synthetic materials...
Always hard to overcome the midyear layoff and get the team back to game pitch, Fesler has really been working the netmen in the last few practices. New plays to spruce up the offence and work on a tighter defence have been the order of the day, while general conditioning has also been emphasized...
...went separate ways last week from Hankow, the de facto capital of China. She flew 600 miles to the comparative safety of British Hong Kong in the South. He flew 275 miles to the hottest battle sector in the North, near Suchow in fertile Shantung, "China's Breadbasket." Tighter censorship, both Chinese and Japanese, reduced most war news to rumor. It was, however, credible if conflictingly rumored...
...book has double meaning for anyone who has studied under Mr. Lowes. If there is one poet who has written in English in the past three hundred years, surely John Keats is that poet on whom nearly everyone agrees, extremist and sit-tighter alike. Why, then, in an age in which so much competent minor poetry is being written, is Keats as a model so consistently neglected? Or is he? Perhaps the answer is that he isn't, but that he translates badly, not to say unrecognizably: that our modern verse idioms, bizarre, swift, and impatient, are incapable of carrying...