Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wave of Japanese came over, this time from the northwest, bombing the Drum Tower residential section of China's capital. In a total of four hours' bombing, wave on wave, Japanese airmen dropped everything from enormous 500-lb. explosive charges which destroyed whole blocks and rocked the earth, to small, incendiary bombs no bigger than hand grenades, which ignited everything they touched that could possibly be set afire...
Three years ago the arch-Republican Philadelphia Inquirer would not have printed a column by General Johnson if he had been the last columnist on Earth. In fact, until the General's belligerent attitude toward publishers while NRAd-ministrator had been forgotten, United Feature salesmen did not have too much success selling his column in the newspaper offices they solicited. In the past 60 days, however, as the Johnson bombardment of the Administration has grown to Alcazar proportions, United Feature salesmen have been able to add 13 papers to the General's string. This does not remotely approach...
...State surveyors reconnoitred a rail route over Pennsylvania's forested ridges between Chambersburg and Pittsburgh. Two more surveys were made, four times the name of the prospective road was changed before 1863 when the line, on which in 25 years not so much as a spadeful of earth had been turned, received its final title-the South Pennsylvania Railroad. Not, however, because of these abortive promotions, but because 54 years ago the late William Henry Vanderbilt lost his temper, was Pennsylvania able last week to take the first steps to obtain one of the finest, safest motor highways...
...good or ill one of every 100 U. S. citizens is in college or university this fall. Never before in any nation on earth have so many (1,250,000) students and pseudo-students tried to climb the peaks of education. Big, bustling University of Minnesota in Minneapolis is sharing in the boom. Last week the small, silver-haired dean of its College of Science, Literature & the Arts, John Black Johnston, 68, prepared to retire, and as he did so lugubriously doomed one in every two of its students to drown in the sea of education...
...Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (Directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway); Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna); Dead End (Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor); The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman, Raymond Massey, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); Shanghai bombing newsreels-Universal, March of Time, News...