Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide, clean boulevards lined with modern apartments and shops run parallel with filthy, unpaved alleys, so narrow that three people cannot walk abreast, lined with squalid one-story hovels. Fully one-third of the city's 1,000,000 Chinese live on dirty, water-logged sampans, jam-packed along the river fronts...
...work at night, had wrecked the Sun Yat-sen University, the British-owned Saichuen power station, cutting off all air-raid alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth Sun Yat-sen Memorial Auditorium
...Commission by His Majesty's Government's Deputy Permanent Under-Secretary for Colonies, Sir John Shuckburgh. Following a suggestion of mail-fisted Sir Charles Tegart, now adviser to the Palestine Government on the suppression of terrorism, a barbed wire barrier to keep out terrorists is being strung along the entire Palestine frontier at a cost of $450,000. This includes a nine-foot barbed wire fence between Palestine and French-mandated Lebanon and Syria, which border Palestine on the north and northeast. A lot of Palestine's tougher Arabs come from those two mandates. The fence will...
...past Fresno, then swallowed it up. Last week, a young Fresno prospector, H. O. Collier, saw something that glittered as he clambered up near the top of 9,000-ft. Buena Vista in the Sierra Nevadas. It was the wreckage of the plane, smashed to bits but unburned. Strewn along the slope were the bodies of the victims. Promised by TWA for Prospector Collier's find...
...Beacon Hill as exist under the present system. And in addition the University would have admitted the failure of a large portion of the House Plan and would have found a much less desirable substitute. If dances are left in student hands John Harvard will be able to get along without the help of Joe College...