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...keen little Japanese general, trim if tubby, bustled about Hongkong last week, the confident swish of his great-coat followed by hate-glinting Chinese eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Awjul Onus | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...turned out to be the Converse Laboratory, he is quite human and promises to make as good a President as Harvard has ever had. Evidently, this in the last expedition which has been planned for the next decade or so; if one excepts an occasional safari to keep in trim, such as an honorary degree to another Al Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE OF A KIND | 2/26/1935 | See Source »

...hands at bow to trim ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Last of the Last | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...pump every time you go for water in the yard.--Trim all the lamps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master's Instructions Women For Hired Servant of 1814 Acquired by Widener Library From Heirs of John Pratt | 2/7/1935 | See Source »

...Laval's hand, but first he kissed Excellency Laval on both cheeks. Outside the station a mob of Romans, accustomed for years to shout "Abbasso la Francia! Down with France! " when they mentioned that country at all roared "Evviva Mussolini! Evviva la Francia! Evviva Laval!" With 5,000 trim Italian police and militia blocking off the station, the Frenchman's hotel and an intervening strip of Rome, II Duce gave a pointed exhibition of how to guarantee the safety of a foreign visitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Toasted Entente | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

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