Word: ts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summarizing his case, the man who reached the White House despite his crippling disease could not help but give his inquirer a series of "Dos" and "Don'ts." The "Don'ts": heavy massage, overexercise, exposure to cold, growing...
...that only harmonious U.S.-Russian relations can prevent such a war, that Russian aggressive policies are somehow caused by the fact that in the U.S. people are always grossly hurting Russian feelings. In a chapter called Getting Along with Russia, Scott offers some do's and don'ts whereby Americans may spare the easily abraded Russian skin. Americans who are reasonably sure that Russian policy is seldom motivated by hurt feelings and reasonably fed up with Soviet truculence may wish that Author Scott would write a similar book of etiquette for Russians...
...crude agreement to submit scripts to the Hays Office was not signed until 1924. It collapsed two years later with the advent of sound and the ensuing conflicts with the Authors' League over scripts. A year later, producers agreed to abide by a list of eleven "Don'ts" and 26 "Be Carefuls," but the broad interpretations they allowed themselves soon roused another storm of public protest. It was not until 1930 that the present Production Code, based on the Ten Commandments, was drawn up. And even that did not noticeably improve movie bad manners and morals until producers...
What makes Anna and the King of Siam quietly engrossing reading is that ts fantastic story is true. Author Margaret Landon heard about Anna during her own ten-year stay in Siam. She read Anna's books and, in a chance meeting in 1939 in Evanston, Ill., met people who had known Anna. Anna and the King of Siam consists of 391 pages (with neat line drawings by Margaret Ayer) condensed from Anna's own discursive, old-fashioned writing. It is "75 percent fact, and 25 per cent fiction based on fact." Gilbert & Sullivan King. The King...
More than 2,000 years ago in feudal China, the powerful state of Ts'in dominated six weaker kingdoms. Ts'in conceived the principle of lien-heng, and moved to swallow up its neighbors. The weaker kingdoms gave only lip service to their pledges of ho-tsung, failed to band themselves together for mutual protection. One by one they were attacked and destroyed by the kingdom of Ts...