Word: sapped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...China is a sensitive plant, dependent on the weather. In summer when the weather is warm, Chinese politicos take the field. The Nationalist government must bend all its energies to preserving its existence amid ceaseless civil war. With the first frosts the troops in the field, like the sap in the trees, are stilled. Last week rebel troops were sufficiently frostbound to allow T. V. Soong, China's able, Harvard-trained Finance Minister to promulgate a law for which he and foreign traders have been agitating for years. The likin or tariff on goods shipped from one large town...
...heart of the volume is M. Cazamian's contention that English humour is derived in part from the French. He finds, in Chaucer, support for his case, a case which does not in any way deny to English humour its peculiarly native quality. "The sap of rich realism and supple shrewdness which nourished his humour was of native racy flow. He announces the breadth of the Elizabethan drama and the subtlety of modern English humorists...
...fured, Hungary, puzzled last week over an intense, anxious cablegram signed by Poet-Sage Sir Rabindranath Tagore of Santiniketan, Bengal, India. When they had made out what was wanted the villagers went out and examined a sapling. "It is shedding its leaves," they cabled back to Tagore, "but its sap is healthy and its life seems assured." Four years ago the sapling was planted as a "Hope Tree" by the Sage. He is supposed to believe that the planter of such a tree will live for at least five years after the planting, providing the tree lives. The villagers...
...whistled a much different tune from that of last Spring. In May and June, on his raceabout tour of Northern Italy, he hurled bombast from stumps and palace balconies, defied France, flayed other governments (especially Great Britain's) for clumsy mishandling of unemployment. But now, in October, his sap having cooled, II Duce spoke at calm, significant length...
...English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely deep. "That, gentlemen," said the Prime Minister, "was Hill No. 60. Within a few minutes I think we shall have it." Captured twice by Germans, thrice by Britons, famed Hill No. 60, scene of the bitterest fighting in the Ypres Salient, was sapped and mined before the last successful British attack, blown up on April 17, 1915 by one of the most titanic explosions ever loosed by man in war. Last week British Brewer John J. Calder, who bought Hill No. 60 in 1920 for patriotic reasons, announced that he had finally perfected...