Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capital, Nanking, no one knew whether or not to believe reports that President Chiang had resigned. Martial law was in effect. Several mutinous army divisions were menacing the capital. China was another name for Anarchy. In the vast city of Shanghai, peopled by nearly two million Chinafolk, it was impossible to take a train or send a telegram to Nanking, Peiping or Hankow, "Chicago of China." Wires and rails had been cut by men with guns who might be described as soldiers, mutineers, revolutionaries or bandits as one pleased. They all looted indiscriminately. Chaos grew so complete that leading Shanghai...
This is considered an easy theme, much easier than that of two years ago-"THE COLORING OF THE MOUNTAIN BECOMES MORE BRILLIANT"-a stumper which proved difficult to get into the requisite tanka form of 31 syllables, in lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven syllables (TIME...
...street watches a 72-story building go up and queries: What will cities look like in the future? What innovations will there be; how will people live in the tall buildings? Two architect-prophets have recently published books* in which each essays to predict the future of the metropolis. Le Corbusier, a Swiss whose real name is Charles Edouard Jeanneret, famed in Paris for his revolutionary ideas and dicta on city-planning, tells didactically and illustrates exhaustively his version of the future. Hugh Ferriss, romantic U. S. draftsman of modernistic architectural elevations in black and white, illustrates his predictions with...
...Informal riding clothes. J. Stanley Reeve is always himself immaculate and proper, a perennial figure in grey derby and white spats at horse shows, polo matches. Two years ago some Philadelphia tailors hailed him as "Philadelphia's best-dressed man." Tailors for dapper Edward T. Stotesbury and onetime Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick protested...
Eight out of eleven Oregonians took off their jerseys, played with their bare arms sticking out of their pads. They got one touchdown on a Florida pass but Quarterback Crabtree of Florida, used to warm weather, trickled 81 yards through them, and Ed Sauls and Red McEwen made two more. Florida 20, Oregon...