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Word: bending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heralding for so long that Shanghai correspondents were becoming incredulous. In Tokyo the Ministers of the Army and Navy are not responsible to the Premier but only to the Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country zone outside Shanghai so sharply that it would be impossible for Chinese forces to continue to hold Chapei in the urban zone (see map, p. 19). Tazang was the town at which the Japanese decided to push big, after bombing and shelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Never Anything Greater! | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Winchester Budlong, John P. R. 16 170 5.9 Lockwood High E. Greenwich, R. I. Burnett, Charles L. 18 173 6. St. Mark's Manchester Carr, William J. 18 157 5.10 Boston Latin Charlestown Curtis, Gordon Jr. 19 158 5.11 Middlesex Weston Elbel, Donald R. 19 155 5.9 Exeter South Bend, Ind. Gardelia, Joseph W. 21 186 6. Worcester Academy Worcester Gordon, Melvin J. 17 145 5.11 Rivers School Brookline Harder, George H. Jr. 19 170 5.11 St. Mark's Stockbridge Hartstone, Leon C. 17 155 5.8 Brookline High Brookline Helman, Clifton F. 18 160 5.11 Boston Latin Brookline Hires, William...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Football Statistics | 9/28/1937 | See Source »

This exchange perceptibly relieved the feelings of the 1,200 U. A. W. delegates on the floor. Their union, which has mushroomed from 30,000 to 375,000 members since it convened in South Bend, Ind. a year ago, which is now the third biggest union in C. I. 0. (after United Mine Workers) was badly contorted by growing pains. The disagreement between cocky, young Homer Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Problem Child | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Supercilious Mandarins set aside for the foreign devils of Shanghai a separate area, eventually enlarged to a long strip of mud flats and pestilential swamps on the elbow bend of the Whangpoo River. Here separate concessions were established by Britain, the U. S., France. The French Concession has remained a separate entity, the other two combined in an International Settlement governed by a mixed commission to which other nations, including Japan, were later admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...seemed not to mind. Not even they could figure why Charley wanted another pay check. A widower with one son, his $25,000-a-year from the Democratic National Committee seemed ample. Charley the Mike, his pals figured, must be just plain bored with so few Republicans to bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Archer Winged | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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