Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surprised Chinese battled the Japanese landing parties hand-to-hand, but the Son of Heaven's troops gained a solid footing, preparatory to Japanese efforts to nip off Shanghai from the rest of China by closing pincers from the North and South, now that Japan's frontal attack has failed to take Shanghai for 13 weeks. This week 39 Japanese destroyers and shallow draft gunboats were bombarding the Shanghai peninsula's southern coast and the Japanese landing force, variously estimated between 5,000 and 25,000 had advanced to within 15 mi. of Shanghai...
Borne under by their opponents superior passing attack the Junior Varsity soccer team yesterday bowed 4-2 to New Hadford Textile here...
Died. Robert Potter Hill, 63, U. S. Representative from Oklahoma, onetime (1913-15) Representative from Illinois; of a heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Congressman Hill had been scheduled to speak at last week's meeting of the East Central Educational Association at Ada, Okla. First person who agreed to deliver the address in question was Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died last July. Next Amelia Earhart was asked, accepted, flew off into the Pacific Ocean. After her President Henry Hardin Cherry of Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, Ky., accepted, and died. Dr. Melvin Everett Haggerty...
Died. Marie Pierre Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Sagan, fifth Duke of Talleyrand, 78, husband of Railway Heiress Anna Gould; of a heart attack; in Paris. The Duke married Heiress Gould in 1908 after she had been divorced from his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. Her father, Jay Gould, who bequeathed her $80,000,000, opposed their marriage...
...mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through the bedeviled old man's mismanagement, the emigrants-now at the end of their trek and busily founding a new settlement-are caught off guard by a Zulu attack, wiped out to a man. But the cinematic plot serves principally as a framework for descriptions of the routine of South African pioneer life: the hunts, skirmishes, prayer meetings, occasional festivals. This more or less documentary side of the book will sustain most readers' interest in a novel that would...