Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essence of the American film is the strong 'heman' who landed the goods, the self-made man who struggled to the top. We want more of that type. Let us have that sort of hero, rather than the dude who spends his time at the races or in dance halls, or the type of gentleman who never worked...
...Name all the Gods, and in their name I tell you France must help me-must!" Thus, at Peking, to a French correspondent, thundered last week the great barbaric War Lord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thumping a table top with the hilt of his sword, Chang continued: "The advance of the Chinese Nationalists northward from Shanghai against me (TIME, March 28 et seq.) is of international importance. If Bolshevism triumphs in China, it will triumph throughout the world. The Great Powers must help me to push the Nationalists back, South of the Yangtze River. Then I will treat with...
...hand = 4 in., 18 hands = 72 inches, 72 inches = 6 ft. (Horses are measured from ground to top of shoulder...
...Conservatives, if one not registered at the polls or in the records of Parliament. There are a few who might prefer the attitude typified by two men now facing death in a Massachusetts prison who are proud of calloused hands. And yet again, it may be the top-hatted labour M. P.'s who will reach their goal sooner. The thought and laws of England have often changed but its polish remains the same...
...seldom it is that indifferent Cantabridgians can spare time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...