Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other distinctions was added that of being selected in Marion, Ark. to serve on a jury with eleven white men in the trial of two Negro youths for raping a white girl. He was the first Negro so honored in Marion since 1888, one of the few in the whole history of Southern jurisprudence. The trial-attended by 800 spectators who were searched for weapons at the courthouse door-lasted one day. When it ended, it took Juror Claybrook and his confreres only seven minutes to find the defendants guilty...
...whole tip of the Shantung peninsula was last week nipped off by Japanese forces. They not only completed the capture of Tsingtao (TIME, Jan. 10), but with little fighting gained control at one stroke of 11,000 square miles, their biggest haul in weeks. It was a profitless victory in one respect, for they found Chinese had wrecked and burned some $100,000,000 of Japanese property, mostly factories and warehouses, including 438 Japanese private homes in Tsingtao. This, however, will provide a good excuse for demanding an indemnity and the forehanded Japanese promptly valued their wrecked houses at some...
...London bookstores last week offered the first account of the Abdication written for tiny tots, Kings and Things by H. E. Marshall: "King Edward loved a lady and wanted to marry her . . . but a whole lot of people all over the Empire didn't like her much and didn't want her to be Queen...
...Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago, a onetime colleague of Jauncey's at St. Louis, pored over his experiments, pronounced them competently done but would not commit himself as to their validity. Dr. Compton added somewhat superfluously that they would be of great importance to the whole structure of modern physics if they were confirmed...
...clients scattered throughout the Midwest, nearly 100 houses for which no precedent existed anywhere. In leafy suburbs of Chicago these houses still look strangely civilized and sheltered, with low vistas and wide-spreading eaves. "Taking a human being for my 'scale,' " Wright has said, "I brought the whole house down in height to fit a normal one-ergo, 5' 8" tall, say. ... I broadened the mass out all I possibly could, brought it down into spaciousness. ... I was working toward the elimination of the wall as a wall to reach the function of a screen...