Word: braving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Butchered by his soldiers at Sian last week was memorable General Wang Ichi. In 1931 he was one of the very few Manchurian generals to offer brave resistance to the battling and bribing Japanese. Butchered too last week were Colonels Chiang Pin, Hsu Fang and Sung Hsueh-li while others of the Young Marshal's officers escaped or were held "in custody" at Sian...
...sticky hands and went on reading dreamingly: "In 451 A.D. King Theodoric united his forces with the Romans and defeated Atilla at the Battle of Chalons, thus saving France from the rule of the Huns. For this deed alone European civilization owes a great debt to the brave leader of the Visigoths. The Bessemer process, for making steel without carbon was invented by Henry Bessemer in 1855, and is one of the chief factors behind the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century...
...fisted James C. Petrillo, president of Chicago's Federation of Musicians. Last week he launched his most daring offensive against music canners by forbidding any member of the Chicago union to make a record, beginning Feb. 1, 1937, without permission of his executive board. Many called the edict brave, more declared it impracticable. But possibly it might be the first move in a campaign of national proportions...
...Bronislaw Huberman was the man who made its debut a possibility. Touring Palestine in December 1935. Huberman, a Polish Jew, was impressed by the attendance and enthusiasm of natives & exiles who came to hear his violin concerts. He determined to build for them an orchestra at Tel Aviv, their brave new cultural capital, and resigned his Vienna teaching post to do so. Already in Palestine, or easily available all over Europe, were scores of refugee Jewish musicians. It was easy to get, as permanent administrators of the new orchestra's trust fund, such influential Jews as Financier Israel Sieff...
...cancer. On the other hand, other sulfur compounds inhibit growth. These may be the body's regular protective guard against cancer. Miss Medes has made it her job to find out the answer to this phase of the cancer question, no matter what the cost. Thus far the brave scientist has discovered in her body none of the lumps, malaise, sores, cachexia that harbinger the world's most frightful blight. Said she last week: "I don't mind being a guinea pig. But I do mind being called...