Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret printing plant. Soon Prague heard the crack of firing squads. Nine Czech students were executed, and all universities in the Protectorate were closed for three years, treatment no less harsh than the Tsars used to give their rebellious undergraduates. Over 2,000 people were arrested in Prague. Eight hundred were almost immediately released, but the Nazis were said to be sending many of the rest to the notorious Buchenwald prison camp in Germany near Weimar...
...Government charges that the Communists promised to limit their Army to some 45,000 men, but have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy of $45,000, has been granting only $30,000. Central Armies have uniform arms; Communists have eight different kinds of rifles, and the Government has given them no artillery, no telephone wire, no heavy machine guns, almost no ammunition. The Government says: Why train and arm a Communist Army just to have it turn on us? Generalissimo Chiang has long been a hater of Communists; nor do the Communist leaders...
...five yards, but the Harvard attack stalled after a 40 yard advance and Yale took the ball on downs on its own 21. Burr's quick kick went over MacDonald's head and went out of bounds on the Harvard 29. Spreyer and Macdonald hit the guards for eight yards. A Yale offside gave Harvard the ball on first down...
Spreyer was forced to kick and Burr ran back ten yards to the Eli 45 yard stripe. Two plays and no gains, so Seymour punted out of bounds on Harvard's eight yard line with the best kick of the afternoon...
Seymour recovered a Harvard fumble on Harvard's eight yard line with only three minutes of playing time to go. Macdonald fumbled and Seymour recovered and on the next play went over and scored for the Eli. Yale missed the extra point. Macdonald made touchdown...