Word: crows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for this optimism was that, after weeks of excruciatingly slow progress by naval and land forces up the valley of the broad, brown Yangtze, Japanese troops suddenly knifed through stubborn Chinese defense lines and penetrated to Wusueh, on the north bank of the Yangtze, only 80 crow miles from their goal. In Hankow, Chinese military heads, preparing for a last-ditch stand, ordered evacuation of 20,000 women to facilitate defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from...
Although the admirers of Tommy Hitchcock had plenty to crow about (he played his usual slam-bang game), the teamwork of the Greentree side faded under the brilliant strategy of Old Westbury's Stewart Iglehart and the aggressive, precise team play of his mates. From the fourth chukker on, they peppered the Greentree goal-Mike Phipps scoring six times, Cecil Smith eight, Stewart Iglehart two-in a display of well-balanced polo that has seldom been matched anywhere. Greentree, conspicuously outmounted but making exciting play of it until the final gong, scored only seven goals. Experts wondered whether...
...Frank Hawks had been aviation's best pal and severest critic. Then he was flying for Texaco, and every push he gave aviation meant bigger gas and oil sales. Flying coast-to-coast and point-to-point faster than men had traveled such distances before, he used to crow: "That's the way the airlines could fly this route if they'd take that outside plumbing off their ships." Recent years have seen most of Frank Hawks's speed records fall to Howard Hughes, but they have also seen the "outside plumbing" disappear from commercial aviation...
While the Japanese were stalled last week in their drive up the Yangtze to Hankow, at Shanghai the Japanese Army seized pro-Chinese books by U. S. Authors Carl Crow, Agnes Smedley, Edgar Snow, two issues of the New York Times, one issue of TIME. The U. S. Consulate protested. In a national radio broadcast Chinese Premier H. H. Kung, descendant of Confucius, described China's bountiful harvests this year, exulted: "God is helping China...
...Wood's picture book was called How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers (and other Wood-cuts). In it he professed to find philosophical and pictorial resemblances between the crow and the crocus, the hawk and the hollyhock, the pea and the pewee, the rue and the rooster, the pecan and the toucan, many others. After 21 years and 17 editions, the book is still in print. It sells about 600 copies a year. Dr. Wood occasionally checks up on sales in department stores, to make sure that his publishers (currently, Dodd, Mead & Co.) are sending him enough...