Word: combats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were four times as many cases as at the same time last year. Extraordinary as this is (for 1934 and 1935 were measles years, and usually measles strikes heavily only twice in a decade), doctors who read their medical journals diligently were better prepared than ever before to combat a respiratory disease which causes much misery and some deaths...
...captain of a British freighter loading oranges in the harbor. In retaliation, Leftist planes again bombed Salamanca, Valladolid, Talavera. To end this senseless waste of good munitions and useless murder of civilians the Leftist Government proposed a truce on the bombing of any objective not in the area of combat by planes of either side...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to enroll with Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service as Founder No. 1 of his National Foundation to Combat Infantile Paralysis (enlistment fee: $1), he found he had no money, was obliged to borrow from Press Secretary Stephen Early...
...ring's official biographer. Every German has heard the War story illustrating Göring's Chivalry. Göring, one of the Kaiser's greatest flying aces and successor to the late great von Richthofen as commander of his famed squadron, once engaged in combat a Danish airman who was fighting for the French. "My machine-gun jammed," the Dane related afterward, "and when Göring saw I was defenseless he flew up alongside, waved a salute, and then soared away...
Japan will be further strained in proportion as she is obliged to combat the nationalist government by conquering more and more territory. Will control of the coast be enough? Can she stop half-way in the conquest of China? The tendency will be sooner or later...