Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preface to his "Collected Poems," Mr. Coffin attempts to state his position in the field of poetic endeavor, by way of answering the assertion that he is a provincialist whose colloquialisms are mere gibberish to outsiders. He admits that his primary subject material consists of Maine people, and that the inspiration for his work lies within the area of a particular region. But this does not mean that his poetry is significant with regard to only State-of-Mainers. From the everyday existences, the "Monday and Tuesday" lives, of these people, Coffin declares that he can create a mosaic...
From Germany, where he has been studying artillery tactics, Japan's Prince Motomichi Mori landed in Manhattan on his way home, said he was eager to go to China...
...reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the auto companies have enough steel on hand to last until large scale production begins on 1940 models and want to be sure their big buying is done at the bottom, not on the way down. Aggressive National Steel Co., always up front among the price cutters, admitted that it didn't "know what the price is," was reported taking fill-in business from all comers to be rolled in one lot when enough of it accumulates. Ponderous U. S. Steel Corp. first disregarded...
...Modern Art opened its doors with an exhibition of Lillie Bliss's fine Cezannes and other first-rate French paintings borrowed by President Goodyear in Europe. Reporters discovered young, lean, black-haired Mr. Barr looking tired, a description which it has been safe to apply ever since. The way people piled in, it might have been Madison Square Garden...
...Harvardites, Marshall MacIsaac and Stephen Madey, placed in the vault, the former tying for second, and the latter ending in a seven-way tie for third. In the jump Bob Partlow took fourth, as Dartmouth's Don Blount upset Princeton's Anson Perina with a tremendous leap of 24 feet, 6 3-4 inches...