Word: upped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The seizure [by China from Russia-(TIME, July 22)] of the Chinese Eastern Railway simply means that the Chinese no longer will stand for anything and everything foreigners may try to put over on them. There is little doubt that Soviet Russia was using the railway as a political instrument...
Doolittle. Short and compact is the Army's best flyer, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle. Able was he, in a college boxing tournament at the University of California some years ago, to hold his own-and a little more than his own-against strapping Eric Pedley, eight-goal California poloist (see...
As the startling words fell, embarrassed white members of the congregation looked from the corners of their eyes at the Negroes. One young Negress hurried out of the church crying into her handkerchief. In another pew an aged Negro bowed his head, did not look up during the rest of...
The Loree plan is original. Other plans have been based on the observed fact that, in the East, railroads run mostly East and West. Mr. Loree shaped a system of which New England is the head, the Appalachian Mountains are the backbone and Virginia the Southern extremity. Thus as he...
In his statement Sir Douglas expressed concern over continued competition in foreign companies; over unsettled conditions in the potentially great Chinese market; over the inaccessibility of Russia where the Soviet government holds $84,000,000 of Singer assets. Then Sir Douglas told of the counteractive efforts of his sales agencies...