Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every time British statesmen resolve to grapple with the baffling problem of Britain's 1,295,000 unemployed they turn first and instinctively to Canada. The granary of the Empire is underdeveloped, needs men. Britain is industrially overdeveloped, has too many men. In London the solution looks simple: send...
Humbug. "I've gone from 'E. C.' to 'P. C.'," boasted Mr. Thomas once to a British Laborite audience. "That is, I began as an Engine Cleaner and now I'm one of 'is Majesty's Privy Councilors, but I guess you...
¶ Japanese troops were rushed from Port Arthur up the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway to strategic positions in central Manchuria where Japanese colonists have extensive vested interests.
Amazed students of modern history had only a few hours in which to wonder whether Dr. Edouard Benes?co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic with famed President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk? could possibly have tinkered together in secret the new three-in-one "Great Power." For the day after its revelation...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked how he wrote "Up to Now," his serial auto-biography currently appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. Answered he: "I dictated it. . . . I'll tell you the secret of concentration. Just get in the front seat of a car. Light a good cigar and ride...