Word: 29th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saturday, 29th January, 1848-recording visits from two Senators...
Unconquered is by the correspondent who was the first to get the full story of Chiang Kai-shek's kidnapping at Sian (First Act in China). He saw the debacle of the 29th Route Army at Peiping, spent nearly a year in Soviet territory. His book gives detailed descriptions of guerrilla fighting and of the Red Army's famed "short attack." Best testimony to the guerrillists' deadly effectiveness are Author Bertram's quotations from the gloomy diaries of the Japanese soldiers who fought them...
Under the leadership of Captain Bill Hinton, a ski squad composed of Hinton, Dick Whittemore, Karl Porges, Joe Thomas, Al Eipper, and John Pierpont will, during the next two days, engage in stiff competition with the outstanding collegiate skiers of the East at the 29th annual Dartmouth winter carnival...
...Duchess of Windsor, the thrice-married lady for whose love Edward VIII abdicated, is not Her Royal Highness. She is merely the 29th and lowest Duchess in the realm, a fact which annoys the Duke. It seems to him that the royal family's- particularly the royal ladies'-attitude toward the Duchess is needlessly punitive. He also resents the moral indignation raised against the Duchess by that class of English ladies so well represented by Lucy Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said...
Whatever hope harassed young Snead might have imbibed with his lunch soon evaporated in the afternoon round. On the 24th green he won his first hole. On the 27th, he was 7 down. On the 29th, White Plains licked White Sulphur. Paul Runyan had won his second P. G. A. championship with a score of 8 and 7, the most decisive margin since the tournament was inaugurated...