Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Army, definitely balked in its advance along the Lunghai Railway by the muddy floodwaters of the Yellow River, last week saw its campaign to capture Hankow, operating headquarters of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government, temporarily taken over by the Navy...
Japanese gunboats, based at Anking on the Yangtze, moved up the broad stream, blasted their way past Chinese batteries on the banks. Japanese landing parties, aided by the Navy's guns, inched their way westward along the shores. At week's end the naval drive had reached a point below Matang, 250 miles away from Hankow, where the Chinese have blocked the river with timbers, sunken junks and hunks of concrete. Eleven other barriers straddle the river between Kinkiang and Hankow. This week, Japanese mine sweepers, gingerly nosing up to the boom, were driven off by Chinese...
...battalion of Bersaglieri, crack, sharpshooting troops of the Italian Army, was trudging along a dusty road near the town of Faenza one day last week when it was overtaken by an official automobile. At the head of the column the car stopped. Out stepped Premier Mussolini, nattily decked in a snow-white uniform of the Fascist militia. The 54-year-old Duce took his place in front of the battalion, challenged the soldiers to a one-mile trot into town...
...flotilla of yachts-yelled themselves hoarse as Ed Leader's crew shot out in front getting away from the stake boats. But that was the only time it was in front. In as pretty a race as has been seen on the Thames in years, both shells moved along as one-the Yale bow stubbornly clinging to the Harvard stern - until beyond the three-mile mark. There Yale made a courageous challenge, moved up almost neck & neck with the smooth-moving Harvard boat. But the spurt was not good enough. The crimson crew, with its short leg & arm stroke...
...Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...