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...city's population withered, but the garrison stood fast. A year ago the Communists attacked across the lake's frozen surface, were repulsed in a savage, three-day battle when the ice broke under them. After that, Yungnien boatmen chopped out a wide moat. The Communists sat tight at the artificial lake's boat approaches, and inside Yungnien the stores of grain ran out. Deficiency diseases appeared, and the city swarmed with germ-spreading vermin...
...addition to giving these masterpieces their proud place ("the supreme discovery," says Stefansson, ". . . is the finding of a continent"), Stefansson has included such little-known explorations as those of the Chinese on the fringes of North America in the 5th Century A.D. and the roamings of Polynesian boatmen...
...Sioux disliked the steady pressure on their western hunting lands. They showed their dislike by killing boatmen, miners, surveyors, or whoever else happened to be handy. In 1876 General Phil Sheridan dispatched three converging U.S. Army columns to teach them manners. As supply ship for one of these columns he hired the Far West, Captain Grant Marsh, at a rent...
...meter event which will see Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Navy, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, University of California, University of British Columbia, and, of course, the University of Washington Participating. Of this listing the first seven all defeated the crimson shell at Annapolis last month, though previously the local boatmen out stroked Princeton and MIT on the Charles...
Borrowing from your own, or some other nation's, storehouse of folk music is an old composer's trick. Dvorak and Puccini used U.S. tunes. Tchaikovsky not only reworked Russia's own Song of the Volga Boatmen but borrowed a bar or two from Italian music. Ravel, Chabrier and Rimsky-Korsakov took from the Spanish; Aaron Copland from the Mexicans. Last week the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. decided to work each other's musical gold mines officially...