Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rural battle line bent back, Chinese General Sun Yuan-liang, seeing it had become impossible to hold Chapei, ordered what remained of this heavily bombed and shelled Chinese shambles to be set afire. Hurling sulphur and other incendiary materials, Chinese firebugs heroically raised an immense pall of smoke over Chapei beneath which the Chinese defenders executed in the night what foreign military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang...
Matsumoto rebutting, disclaimed the validity of the Tanaka Memorial, as representing a vicious minority group, and ridiculed the reports of Japanese power, comparing the Chinese people to a green bamboo which can be bent but not broken. A half-hour of questioning from the audience of 75 followed the speaking. The meeting broke up at about 10 o'clock...
...whose bent lies in gathering ads, or who'd rather stand on top of the Stadium and snap Struck scoring a touchdown, there will also be an opportunity to come out when the CRIMSON fall competition starts. And one important thing--it will all be done by Christmas, so that plenty of time is left of midyear exam studying...
...produced enough milk to supply the embassy's needs, plus some for bartering purposes with the otherwise well-supplied neighboring British Embassy. Cannaday's measure No. 2 was the purchase of ninety skins of olive oil from a man who feared confiscation by Spain's collectivist-bent Anarchists. Cannaday knew the promise of a few litres of this precious fluid would get action when money, pleading, pressure failed...
Member of a famed Virginia family, Bishop Tucker is, a low churchman whose experience with foreign missions will give the presiding bishopric a new, vigorous missionary bent. From 1899 until 1923, save for a period when he was a major in the A. E. F., he served in the Orient, part of the time as Episcopal Bishop of Kyoto, Japan, and president of St. Paul's College, Tokyo. In 1923 he succeeded his brother, Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., as theology professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, was elected Virginia's bishop coadjutor in 1926. Said he, surprised...