Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops were disarmed. In the second battle our Communist troops penetrated clear to the rear of the Japanese lines by employing 'flying tactics' we used to use against Nanking...
Significance. Mostly European commentators agreed that Hitler and Mussolini had now linked themselves in the eyes of their 115,000,000 people and of the world so definitely that for the present any rumors that they are not in full cooperation over Spain may be dismissed. It was clear that II Duce and Der Fuhrer were both bidding-and bidding jointly-for close and peaceful relations with Britain and France, to the exclusion of Soviet Russia and Leftist Spain. Assuming that Mussolini's state visit to Hitler cost $1,000,000-and the colossal splurge of decorations in German...
Strictly vegetarian and teetotaler Adolf Hitler made the great exception last week of nibbling clear through the State banquet he gave Benito Mussolini and toasting his guest in sweet German champagne. Menu: caviar, soup, sole, chicken, ices and fresh fruit. In after dinner conversations among Germans and Italians in the suites of the two leaders one theme loudly, confidently recurred: "The days when Britain and France were the arbiters of Europe are over. There are now not two great European powers but four": i.e.-Britain, France, Germany and Italy...
Taking their cut from the late Phineas T. Barnum, the Maintenance Department men have painted, in large white letters on the new exits from Sever Hall, "Emergency Egress Only." It was Barnum who, when he wanted to clear his famed American Museum, put a sign reading "To the Egress," over a door to the street, and the local citizenry, eager to see the new curiosity, soon found themselves out of the museum, leaving room for more to enter...
...made it clear to the family that just because I had a phone, they needn't think they had to call me every night. Also I rejected the idea of their sending up a bedspread, because I haven't seen one on my roommate's bed, nor on the beds of the fellows across the hall. College men just don't use those things; the family will have to realize that...