Word: cleared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like Senator Minton strongly pro-New Deal, predicted that when Indiana's anti-New Deal Senator Frederick Van Nuys came up for re-election in 1938 he would be roundly defeated. Last week Senator Van Nuys seized the opportunity given him by his Senatorial colleague to make it clear that if he was in the bad graces of Governor McNutt's successor, he still hoped to be in the good graces of the High Commissioner. Said he: "'Paul McNutt would make an ideal candidate and an ideal President...
Shanghai Campaign. To the mouth of the Yangtze steamed Japanese troopships with 55,000 aboard. Some 13,000 landed at various points near Woosung at the junction of the Whangpoo and Yangtze north of Shanghai; the rest, 42,000, stayed aboard waiting for an all-clear signal, while Japanese men-of-war made demonstrations along the shore. When the Japanese made their main landing in force, the first 700 men ashore, led by 70 picked troops who formed a shirodasukitai ("White Band of Death"), swept the first Chinese aside, pushed on towards what they thought was the second defense line...
...perfectly obvious, is that at Harvard there has to be a distinction made between the men who do live in the Yard and those who don't. Why the future alumni known as upperclassmen are divided into three groups is something I don't know. That's clear, isn't it?" The Vagabond smiled at his neighbor...
...that's perfectly clear. Now tell me, please, what the Freshmen are like." And the man with the big brown eyes smiled back. Now they understood each other...
...collapsed with fever. Heading for Shanghai in the company of a Chinese fur merchant, she exhausted her last will power in fleeing from her host's insidious attentions, was easily hypnotized by her next Chinese escort, who sold her into prostitution: a fate which left her spiritually clear-eyed, "inexplicably passive and serene," for the first time in her life...