Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a Loyalist squadron gave fight to Rebel attackers in a midday raid, the people ran out in the streets and cheered wildly. The rumble of Rebel artillery was distinctly heard. Until martial law was declared movies were still crowded, the opera was beginning another series. Evacuation of the civilian population northward began, the first to be transferred being children and prisoners. Some of the more valuable Government records were moved to Gerona, a city of 22,000 inhabitants 55 miles north of Barcelona...
Some of his conclusions: the whole class of criminals in general is marked off from the civilian population by organic inferiority. "Old American" criminals (native-born whites of native parentage) tend to be smaller and lighter, to have shorter and broader faces, narrower jaws, more sloping shoulders, longer and thinner necks. To the trained anthropologist the dimensions and contours of their heads and faces are sometimes suggestive of retarded development, sometimes of the retention of primitive features, and often of conservatism which may be described as evolutionary rigidity or a failure to conform to modern trends of physical change." Whether...
...free, white & 21, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Within a few months I must leave the Corps, when my service time-limit expires. ... I am a cartoonist ; naturally my work speaks louder than my words...
Then, for the first time since Japan began its conquest of China, the army got its own man the premiership. The Emperor gave the job to austere, fanatically patriotic, 73-year-old Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma. Recognized civilian leader of Japan's military-fascist front, since the army's uprising in February 1936 Baron Hiranuma has been president of Emperor Hirohito's Privy Council...
CHUNKING, Szechuan Province--Japanese warplanes, ranging more than 1000 miles inland, today struck their first major blow at the now Chinese capital here, pouring explosives into civilian areas and killing and wounding more than 200 civilian Chinese. There were nearly 80 planes participating in the raid which was described as the most devastating since the bombing of Canton...