Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit is such an event here at TIME and she herself is such an exciting sort of person that I thought you would like to know more about her and some of her experiences...
Most people in the U.S. were hardly aware of an Asian event which Itagaki and the Japanese army never forget. That event was the weird (to Occidental minds) and semicomic Japanese invasion of Russian territory in 1918. The Japs chose an opportune moment, when Red Russia was weak aborning, to endeavor a second time to drive the Russian bear out of the Far East. They wanted, and seized, Russia's northern half of the island of Sakhalin, the half rich in coal and oil, and added it to their southern half. In the guise of Allied intervention, they seized...
Chest Out. Preflight's track is not the track of the Olympic Games but a specialty called military track. Its main event, the 60-yd. obstacle run, is the most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time...
...great event had happened at last. In Manhattan last week Conductor Toscanini led the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the first U.S. performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's long-heralded Seventh Symphony, composed during the Nazi siege of Leningrad...
...meet, and surprise star of the day was Freshman Arnold Ederman, who took first in the 880, after staving off what threatened to be a last second bid by Ty Brown of Belmont. Don McKinnon, captain of the team and 100 yard dash star, failed to place in his event largely because of lack of practice...