Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever his aims, he remains a good soldier. In a dusty grey motor he rushed, last week, from arsenal to arsenal through Persia, counting cartridges. At Teheran he beamed as shiny new bombing planes, just purchased from Berlin, landed on the flying field. Wasting no time, he despatched the bombers...
Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both...
While other people were doing such things, Aviators Loren W. Mendell, 30, of Los Angeles and Roland B. Reinhart, 29, of Salem, Ore., listened for 246 hr., 43 min., 32 sec., to the steady roar of an old Wright Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an old Buhl air...
Further discourse on what he meant by "vital and essential matters of policies" Mr. Gauvreau would not give. Other newsmen guessed that Editor Gauvreau, a real newspaperman at heart and no Macfaddist, had gotten sick of the daily freak he had created to please Publisher Macfadden. The Graphic, a pink...
Liliom, a Budapest barker about to become a father, gets trapped holding up a cashier, commits suicide. Years later, returning to do a good deed on earth, he forgets his purpose, slaps his daughter, now grown up. U. S. audiences relished Liliom's gruff swagger, wept copiously over his wife...