Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish war front burst into sudden activity last week when a powerfully reinforced Rightist Army moved forward against the Leftist-held Ebro River salient. It was the eighth in a series of costly Rightist attempts to regain the narrow, mountainous strip of land west of the Ebro taken by the Leftists in late July. Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August...
...Generalissimo has always tried to avoid costly positional battles with the overpowering, mechanized Japanese forces. At the same time his military advisers have scorned the opposite strategy, guerrilla warfare, as tactics fit only for the Eighth Route (former Communist) Army fighters. Neutral observers report, however, that the Japanese have been slain four to one in their skirmishes with the Communists. Last week, after retreating from the Japanese for 16 months, leaving them sprawling toward the interior on all China's vital communication lines, Chiang publicly proclaimed a policy of large-scale guerrilla, hit-&-run attacks...
Clark also trimmed the Crimson runners, and so establishes himself as a favorite for next Monday, but the rest of the Yale team is weak, while the Harvard team, led by Junior Gene Clark, came in strongly in bunch behind the winner, taking third, fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth, while the second Yale men, Lee Shapleigh, was tenth...
Born. To Ernst Lubitsch, 46, famed cinema director (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife); and his second wife, onetime Cinemactress and Script Writer Vivian Gave: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
...outset restricted to commuters, the intramural debating plan has been enlarged to include the non-House men because of requests received from this group. It will form, combined with the commuters, the eighth inter-House unit...