Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff maps last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek picked up a ruler and drew a straight line down the 122nd meridian, which almost touches Shanghai. To the world's shipping a warning was sent that if it wished to avoid possible air bombardment all foreign ships must stay east of that line from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. A fleet of Chinese bombers was preparing to make a desperate effort to break Japan's blockade of her coast. Still another fleet of twelve Chinese bombers formed themselves into a ''suicide squad" sworn to destroy...
...Snatch" last week was sitting up in bed at Shanghai, surrounded by flowers, cablegrams and congratulatory letters. His doctors permitted him to walk about his room and receive visitors. A warship waited to take Sir Hughe to a swank resort in The Netherlands East Indies for final convalescence-and still the Japanese Government, far from having made the "fullest redress" demanded by the British Government, had not yet officially replied to London's charge that it was a Japanese war plane which suddenly swooped down on the Ambassador's car and shot "Snatch...
Atop two white poles flanking the broad granite steps of the Baker Memorial Library in Boston, are two gold eagles, one facing east, the other north. Up the steps, between the eagles, into a lecture room of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration this week will march 300 or more industrialists. They will be going to take advice on their labor problems from an absent-minded professor who loses his overcoat regularly on the New Haven R. R. but who in 1933, three years before its arrival, forecast the coming...
...figuratively speaking, told Der Fuehrer he could go due south, the press seized on the last paragraph as "an attack on Hitler," or "a veiled thrust at Nazi Germany," and having had its little splurge abruptly dropped Dr. Bruening in favor of a four alarm fire in East Somerville and the current war on sex crimes...
...Harvard-Yale Battery marched, by truck convey, to Fort Ticonderoga and bivouaced for the night beside the old stone ramparts. It was the first night spent in the open with only pup-tents overhead. Mother Nature celebrated the occasion with a generous baptism of cloudbursts, first from the east, then from the west, and some claim that it rained up as well as down. Dawn came, at long last, with a rising sun, a clear sky, and the fatigue trousers of Robert V. Smith, Yale '38, fluttering wildly in the breeze from the flagstaff on the old fort...