Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 200,000 of China's central army's best-equipped troops backed slowly westward along the railway all week, allowing Lanfeng and Kaifeng to fall, finally holed up in Chengchow, and at week's end Japanese bombers hammered at the city. Japanese shock troops pressed at its sides. Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow. Only serious obstacle in their path will be the Chinese defense fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow...
...ceremony at a 500-year-old school-Eton's famed Fourth of June festival celebrating the birthday of Patron George III. They looked at the playing fields where Waterloo was won, watched the fireworks, the traditional cricket matches, the river procession of ten racing shells. They were no end impressed by the strange little chaps who on this day not only wear their top hats but are allowed to don colored waistcoats and wear flowers in their lapels, to furl their umbrellas as only the members of "Pop" (the exclusive Eton Society) may ordinarily do. But the sophisticated observer...
Altogether, Henry Armstrong is a fairly rare individual. His strength and his stamina astound fight fans. Although his legs are spindly, his shoulders and arms are as brawny as a stevedore's. At the end of 15 rounds of whirlwind boxing last week, he was breathing no harder than the average person who climbs a flight of subway stairs. His amazing stamina doctors attribute to slow heart action. His powerful arms and shoulders Henry Armstrong attributes to his first job: swinging a sledge hammer in a railroad section gang...
...Hoover Airport from a White House window, but they knew, too, that Franklin Roosevelt's vision this time contained more probable stuff than most dreams are made of. From bushy-browed Kentucky Congressman Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, came at week's end assurance that every effort would be made to have the Campsprings bill passed this week...
...makes an arresting picture-one that French, Roman Catholic Dr. Carrel is romantic and mystic enough to appreciate - two men, one an ageless seer, the other a young and devoted inventor, sitting on two rocks in the middle of a sea, talking, planning ways to prolong the life and end the ills of mankind...