Word: ts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...places it, in this respect, far in advance of any other American library. Now in possession of 86,651 volumes in the former language and 6,994 in the latter, the Library will continue its collecting of cultural books this year, principally in an effort to procure valuable Chinese ts'ung shu, collections of individual works, and especially those out of date, such as the Harvard Classics would form in English...
...most enlightened Baltic peoples, the electric chair seems crude. In principle they have no death penalty, but it is revived whenever Estonia is under martial law, as she has been since last March when a Fascist-Nazi Putsch was crushed. Last week pensive President Päts got to thinking that perhaps Estonia's mode of execution can be improved...
Each Estonian condemned to death at Tallinn has been led out into the nearby forest by eight soldiers and there shot, always in a different part of the forest. To give condemned Estonians a choice, President Päts decreed last week as follows: "One hour before the scheduled time of the execution, the condemned shall be taken to a death cell, where the state prosecutor will read the death sentence and ask the prisoner whether he is willing to commit suicide. If the answer is in the affirmative, the prosecutor will hand the condemned a glass of poison...
Estonians abroad were profoundly shocked by this decree, not because President Päts had authorized suicide but because he had authorized hanging. "Astounding! Incredible!'' they cried. "We have never heard of anyone being hanged in Estonia. They are always shot in the forest...
...made me move. The Ledger accumulated what is perhaps the most remarkable "Don't" list in the history of American journalism (and there have been some swell "don't" lists), in an effort to avoid any further annoyance to the Catholic Church. One of these "don'ts" represents to my mind the farthest South in newspaper rules. That summer, when the St. Louis National Team was playing in the World Series, we were not permitted to refer to them as the Cardinals...