Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chiang held nothing back from the Suchow battle. He concentrated his armies east of the city, relying on the fall floods to defend the swampy plain to the north and northwest. He guessed right. The Reds concentrated their attack on the east, and Chiang's men were there to meet the assault of 400,000 Communist troops in one of the greatest battles of China's history...
...stove, and paced slowly back & forth across the width of the hut. He talked readily. He was General Hu Chia-yi, former Mukden garrison commander. He had left Mukden on the last Chinese Air Force plane to get off in the last few days before Mukden's fall. His force of 500 military police was the city's only defense. What did he think of the government strategy in Manchuria? He hesitated. "Pu-tui-ti" (Mistaken), he said, and resumed his pacing...
...bombing, the rector had been wounded, and scores of professors and students killed. But that fall professors reopened classes in the town's normal school, which had been used as barracks and hospital by successive waves of French, German and British troops. Students made benches and desks out of crates and rubble, plugged up windows with rags. For the rest of the war, with hardly a textbook, little paper, and no typewriters, professors lectured and gave examinations just as before. "We felt that if we could hold out for two or three years," explained one professor, "the university would...
...University National Student Association delegation opens its drive today to enable displaced persons to attend American colleges next fall...
Most upperclassmen who choose to stick with their roommates will have to compete with the Class of '52 for room allocations next fall, although a very small number may get into vacated suites in February...