Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, around Nanking utterly raw, undrilled Chinese youths, most of whom scarcely knew how to use a rifle, were flung against advancing Japanese regulars, and horribly butchered. The crack, German-drilled Chinese 88th Division under ruthless officers, conserving its own strength, drove the Chinese recruits forward and shot in the back those who broke and ran. Twelve miles from Nanking 300 Chinese were surrounded atop a hill by Japanese who set fire to the long grass. It set fire to the trees, burned fiercely completely around the hill, slowly forcing the 300 Chinese to the top. There Japanese machine guns...
...common complaint among modern U. S. artists is that book illustration has gone to hell. For this some of them might share the blame, since to the naked eye of the average publisher nonrepresentational painting is not much use as illustration. Fact is, however, that the fashion is against any illustrations at all except for children's books-a tendency which reached a little apogee last month when Painter Miguel Covarrubias published a book on Bali, illustrated mostly with photographs by his wife (TIME...
Little girl escapists who put their imaginations to more cheerful use turned out pictures of landscapes inspired by romantic literature: Dunbarton Castle, The Lady of the Lake, A View in Asia. Boys who seldom went in for velvet or water colors got their chance at art in "steel pen exercises" in colored ink, supposed to help penmanship. Subjects varied from Napoleon on Horseback to Kittens at Play. "Fractur" painting with quill pens and homemade colors, a survival of medieval illumination which flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans, had at least one child virtuoso in William Henry Oberholtzer, who was in school...
...overlords went U. S. baseball manufacturers to discuss balls of varying degrees of deadness, which had been tried out last season. The National League, which thought the American League was bound to follow its choice, forthwith voted to adopt the No. 4 ball, one degree deader than the ball used last year, on the theory that a deader ball would curtail the American League's superior batting. But the American League, thinking of the large gate receipts produced by its slugfests with the lively ball, used by both leagues since 1934, voted to retain the "rabbit" ball...
...biological activity. This was labeled "Spurious A." Distilled Vitamin A esters are entirely free of this masquerader. They are also, said Dr. Hickman. "particularly stable to heat or oxidation. They are recommended especially for incorporation into fats and other foods, into chocolate, and into capsules for medicinal use. Distilled A capsules do not cause the unpleasant repeating or aftertaste associated with crude fish oils...