Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bureaucrat from way back, the new premier is not popular, has never held an elective office. His entire official career has been spent in the Department of Justice and the Privy Council. Both these institutions are surrounded by a forbidding wall of secrecy, are regarded by liberal Japanese as respectively the dungeon and citadel of reaction...
...rest of the meet was decidedly one-sided. Crimson swimmers swept the firsts and seconds in four other events and won both relays decisively. Max Kraus and Jack Waldron finished one-two in the 220 breastroke but Max was disqualified for an illegal turn--touching the wall with one hand only, so Waldron was declared the actual winner. Kraus's unofficial time was 2:40, while Waldron was three secords slower...
Human nature is at its worst when it comes across a sign saying "paint" resting gingerly on the walls of some stairway. There surges within most individuals an irresistible impulse either to carry off the placard and relax it against the faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove...
...imaginative painter hit upon a much more satisfying if not a more satisfactory solution. He hung a forest of "paint" signs all along the wall but left room for a large square one at the top of the stairs that smiled down upon the painting pedestrians as it remarked...
Broker Joseph Sisto, debonair son of Italian immigrants, spoke no English until he was ten, worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...