Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escape the Communists' well-executed envelopment, Nationalist troops began to evacuate Nanking. Three days after the Red offensive had begun, they streamed out of the capital, weary and disorganized, along the dry brown roads leading through fields of green vegetables and yellow rape, southward and eastward toward the coastal cities of Shanghai and Hangchow and the rugged mountains of Fukien and Kiangsi...
...Formerly," said a brown-kimonoed matron, "the Emperor was the focus of the state. Now where is the focus and what can we strive for? If it is for democracy, what is the exact goal? No one seems able to tell us our objective...
...test, by mixing in chloroform and sodium hydroxide. The fluid containing estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical reagent added to each, for a double check. If the patient is pregnant, one reagent turns the solution dark brown; the other makes it reddish purple.* With both reagents, it becomes amber if she is not pregnant...
Pratt begins with essays on the temper and tactics of such well-known generals as Greene, who forced Cornwallis into his hopeless position at Yorktown, and "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the hero of Fallen Timbers. But it is Country Squire Jacob Brown, onetime secretary of Alexander Hamilton, whom Chronicler Pratt considers "the best battle captain in the history of the nation." Once, during a British attack at Buffalo in the War of 1812, Brown's Kentucky squirrel hunters (under General Gaines) emptied the first two boats so quickly that the others didn't even come in. Brown, says Pratt...
...discovering that the Ithacans aren't in the same league with such teams as DU and Brown, the Crimson players were only able to make close battles out of two of the nine matches...