Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main battle of the war last week was still being fought northeast of Suchow, from 15 to 50 miles north of the eastern end of the Lunghai Railway. Into an area more than half the size of Long Island, General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Area, had poured about 650,000 Chinese soldiers for what six months ago would have been a real anomaly-a Chinese offensive. Opposing them were 100,000 well-trained, well-armed Japanese troops...
...have made citizens visually speed-conscious, so that now even a refrigerator must look as if it is getting somewhere in a hurry. Up to the end of 1937 a total of 54 streamlined trains had been put on scheduled runs by 17 lines. Last week the two major Eastern lines, New York Central and Pennsylvania, announced that on June 15 they would streamline their crack trains. The Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited will be the first streamliners to run out of Manhattan, will both average a mile a minute, will both reach...
Divorced. Josef Washington Hall (Author-Lecturer Upton Close), expert on Far Eastern affairs; by his second wife, Alice MacFarland Hall; in Phoenix, Ariz. Grounds; cruelty...
...tree. "I cain't fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay. On this ranch there are three beautiful daughters, surrounded by mean, sneaking, fast-shooting, cattle-rustling, horse-stealing desperadoes...
Fred Mitchell will give his opinion as to where the nine will finish in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League this year; crew mentor Tom Bolles will discuss the prospects of his 1938 boat. Track coach Jaakko Mikkola has doped out our chances against Yale in the dual meet and will disclose them then: and Dick Harlow is prepared to talk about the 1938 edition of his Crimson football team...