Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls made a spectacular on trance. The lights were lowered to the accompaniment of disappointed boos, a hush came over the audience, and two dozen Central Massachusetts mermaids pranced to the water's edge to the tune of a liquid waltz played over the public address system. Twenty-four blue-clad forms dived in as one and glided into compelling formations. The one that excited most interest and speculation was the cartwheel, in which the fair ones split into groups of three. Two would tug at the legs of a third companion in what seemed to be an effort...
...many of them in the South because of greater exposure to the germs from walking barefoot. Although 70% of tetanus cases are fatal, the disease can usually be prevented by injections of tetanus antitoxin given right after a wound has been dressed. But once the disease gets to the central nervous system, tetanus antitoxin does little good...
...winter last week finally settled over the "horse heaven" country of central Washington, the weather-wise Yakima Indians had already finished their first wild horse round-up of the year, thus reducing by 200 the estimated 2,500 outlaws still remaining in Oregon and Washington...
...Mowrer is former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...
China, they add, will win IF: 1) the Central Government arms the whole peasantry, whose Communist leanings it mistrusts; 2) the Kuomintang-Communist pact holds; 3) Russia continues to send substantial aid to the Chinese; 4) the U. S. puts an embargo on iron, oil and planes to Japan; 5) England and France do not make a deal to dismember China, as a means of blocking both Japanese imperialism and a possible victory for the Chinese Communists; 6) China does not become another Czecho-Slovakia or Loyalist Spain...