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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Rugged Shansi Province has for over two years been the key to the entire war in North China. Against it the Japanese have successively hurled three major campaigns and many little ones-all of which have blown up like light bulbs thrown against a wall. Because the province is as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Sick Men. Behavior of their maddened troops is a source of great shame to responsible men in the Japanese Army and Government. Along his way, White learned some good reasons for that behavior. He was told that most of the Japanese soldiers in Shansi have been there over two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Soldiers, sailors, policemen cheered lustily, carried their former Chief off the parade ground on their shoulders. Later, the Colonel went to his campaign headquarters, a place filled with bodyguards, publicity men, secretaries, photographers and Latin spellbinders who are set to ballyhoo for Batista all over the island. Candidate Batista has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batista Ballyhoo | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Lowlands had been flooded, augmenting the chain of lakes across the isthmus and leaving only narrow strips of land between the lakes as passageway for invaders. This land, wooded and boulder-studded, was a natural anti-tank defense, to which the Finns had added long lines of jagged, diamond-shaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Such Nastiness | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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