Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he reached the Valley of Chin, he found it no longer a land of rice and persimmons. It was a battleground, a mud-soaked, blood-soaked Hell. The severest rains in years and a Japanese Army crazed with hunger and lust had simultaneously descended on it. By the time he arrived the Japanese had been pushed back, but he was told and could see what had happened...
...brick building of "Misery Harbor" (Cook County Hospital)-largest general hospital in the world. Through the gates of the hospital pour 135,000 charity patients every year, for everything from athlete's foot treatment to blood transfusions.* During the last four years Cook County Hospital has been a battleground for two warring medical factions. Last week a compromise ended the fight...
...German troops were mobilized along Canada's border last week, no Canadian cities had been bombed, and only by the remotest flight of fancy could alarmists see the Dominion as a battleground. But life in Canada went on under a haze of Governmental silence as profound as if an alien army had been camped before the gates of Ottawa...
...billion for a nation of 130,000,000 inhabitants together with over 10,000,000 unemployed should be much more our common concern than the happenings in Europe. The nations of Europe were never peaceful and never will be. It is their way of life. Europe was always a battleground and always will...
...come and the issues are joined in battle between these two opposing qualities of thought, we who believe in our way of life and our hard won freedoms for the individual have no choice but to fight it out, in one way or another. ... If the actual battleground can be confined to the continent of Europe it will certainly be the part of wisdom for this country to do its part fully to see that this issue is settled as completely as possible in the place where war has been started...