Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some 50,000 Chinese remained in Canton, from which hundreds of thousands fled in recent weeks, pitiful refugees. The 1,500 Japanese at latest reports had not run amok as Japanese did after the fall of Nanking, but were described by Associated Press as busy trying to check civilian looters and Chinese who were setting fresh fires. The Canton waterworks were wrecked by Chinese to cripple fire fighting efforts...
...Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Fürth and Königsberg at least 450,000 youthful reservists, happy that their Führer Adolf Hitler had got all he wanted of Czechoslovakia without losing a man, were in high spirits as they made ready to return to civilian life November...
Many requisitioned busses bringing flower-bedecked soldiers back to Berlin from Sudetenland were inscribed: "The War is Over!" Also released to civilian life were the Labor Service youths, detained an extra month to work on Germany's counter-Maginot line facing France. These fortifications, heretofore called by U. S. correspondents the Siegfried Line, were last week officially christened Limes* by the Führer himself...
...mental struggle that went on within the independent Chapayev before he accepted the civilian, as an equal has been strongly painted by Mme. Furmanov and is acted with a power only excelled by the climax, in which a white regiment sacrifices itself in an attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...
...forces which from time to time--and with increasing frequency of late--are attacking Harvard University. Within its hollow bowels have lurked a variety of "hostile" uniforms--hues of the American Legion, the Cambridge police, the anti-Red sharpshooters, the purple gown of state legislators. Nor are civilian denizens unknown. Teachers antiquated in theory and doctrine, full of fine words, but lacking research, have been glimpsed. Sometimes the Gatling-gun tattoo of a tabloid printing press has been audible, and this sound has been diagnosed by some as the basic machinery which motivates the horse so powerfully...