Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have shown some initial success. The reason lies in the thinly held lines. About 400,000 men on each side are spread along more than 850 miles of front. In the World War, 4,000,000 men held lines less than half as long. Either side in Spain can attack with initial success if they achieve a measure of surprise. The true test comes when the hostile reserves have been rushed in to counterattack. By this test the Government has failed in every effort...
...press on to Sian, their next objective, the magnificent month-long resistance by the ill-equipped Chinese armies ranks as a high-spot of the entire war. Chief factor in their success has been the employment of a new strategy-instead of retreating en masse before a Japanese front attack, the Chinese now split up into large-sized guerilla contingents, harass the Japanese at widely scattered points along the front. The Japanese have been forced to fan out their estimated 100,000 men in their Yellow River force along a 450-mile front, have been unable to assemble a force...
Most of the patients were hypersensitive to light, noise and excitement, emotionally unstable, restless and irritable. One nurse, during an attack of headache, changed hospitals three times in three days, finally came back to the first...
Casting about for something new with which to attack mouse sarcoma 180. Dr. Richard Lewisohn of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital decided to try spleen extract. The functions of the spleen, an organ in the upper left abdomen, are not wholly understood but one of them is to disintegrate red blood corpuscles and set free their hemoglobin. It has been observed that when bits of cancer are transported by the bloodstream to colonize elsewhere in the body, the spleen is seldom affected. Spleen extract had been tried against cancer before, without success. Dr. Lewisohn decided that...
Died. Dr. William Albert Wirt, 64, educator; of a heart attack; in Gary, Ind. In 1934 he charged that the Brain Trust was plotting revolution and that Franklin Roosevelt was a U. S. Kerensky, which made far more news than his widely adopted Gary School Plan (alternating work, study, play...