Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week brought "Double Ten" (the tenth day of the tenth month) again in China-the 36th anniversary of the founding of Sun Yat-sen's republic. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew back to Nanking from a tour of battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...
Every time Louise hit the ball, father Johnny Suggs looked anxiously on with the appearance of a man protecting a one-run lead with the bases loaded. At the 34th hole, the match was even. At the 35th, Louise was one up. At the 36th, Louise's tee shot faded into the rough and her father was half afraid to look. Calmly she selected a club, wiggled once and sent a tremendous wood shot to the green. Then she curved a putt around a partial stymie and the ball dropped into the cup. That gave her the match...
...proposal was made by E. Scully Bradley, chairman of American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, who demanded more of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, and Wait Whitman while asserting at the 36th annual meeting, held in Atlantic City, that three-quarters of the country's high school teachers of English were trained primarily in English literature...
Died. General Henri Gouraud, 78, oft-wounded, one-armed idol of the Army of France, hero of the bloody Gallipoli campaign, World War I commander of the Fourth Army (which included the 36th and 42nd U.S. divisions), Military Governor of Paris until 1937; in Paris...
...read with interest your Aug. 5 column of social notes from Tegernsee. Two summers ago, our outfit [A-Co., 141st Inf., 36th Div.] was entertained briefly on the shores of the lovely "indigo" lake-a"small, intimate affair sponsored by a group of 55 troopers, and watched by about 5,000 Wehrmacht convalescent wounded...