Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credited China with definite air superiority, and General Mao Peng-tsou, field commander of the air force, gave to the world the names of China's first air heroes: Lieutenant Loi Chong, 23, credited with shooting down four Japanese light bombers in one morning; Lieutenant Wong Sun-sui, age unknown, credited with shooting down two twin-motored bombers near Nanking. Both men were trained in the U. S., used U. S.-built planes. Said Lieutenant Wong: ''American-made pursuit planes can easily outrun Japanese bombers. Shooting them down is comparatively easy because Japanese pilots seem...
What Mr. Whitney would like to see more of, he said, was weight-for-age races (Saratoga puts on three of the nation's four) which would encourage owners of good older horses, who are usually handicapped out of racing by the time they are four or five years old, to keep them in training...
...constant association had taught Dr. Parker: "Very few cats bite or scratch except through fear"; a cat "can throw it [vomit] farther and harder than any other species of domestic animal" ; epilepsy is rather common in kittens ; castration of male kittens" should be done at about six months of age, spaying before the first year; bladder stones are very common in old, neutered toms; cats "rarely, if ever, have rickets, rheumatism, chorea, tetanus, or become poisoned by snake bites"; morphine crazes...
...stronghold serves as the setting for a memorable first novel in which able descriptions of prison life about evenly balance the confused accounts of the breakdown of a sensitive prisoner. The story of Number 957 (name: Alexander William Mansell; sentence: life servitude; eyes: brown; height: 5 ft. 7 in.; age: 20; ruptures: none), Museum deals less minutely with its central character than with the stones which enclose him. The work of an Irish agitator who spent 14 years in Dartmoor and Parkhurst prisons, was twice sentenced to death, it is written in a sensitive narrative prose, interrupted with passages...
...union newspaper announcing editorially that "this is greatest era of pap, piffle and poison the world has ever seen." But solid old Meyer, who used to warn his sons that "roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth, easily set the record for Guggenheim picturesqueness. Sued at age 77, shortly before his death, by 45-year-old Hanna McNamara for breach of promise, the old man climaxed his career a few months later on an operating table when he refused an anesthetic, saying "You can't sell a Jew anesthetics or life insurance," had a nurse play...