Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scorch Hankow? No sooner had Canton fallen than the Japanese announced their military timetable now called for the capture of Hankow by November 3", "The Sacred and Imperial Birthdate." This week, far ahead of schedule, the advance Japanese forces, behind a murderous airplane and artillery bombardment, hammered into Hankow. Chinese military heads, unwilling to stage a bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters...
...Green and his men, but it just doesn't. In the first place, there is no question that the Crimson team has pointed for this clash ever since the opening bell on September 9. Their offense has improved steadily from Brown through Cornell and Army, and their defense has fallen down only on the "break" variety of touchdowns...
...there is equally little doubt that this is by far the most fighting team Harvard has fielded in recent years. The kind of fight they have shown against Cornell and Army is the kind which is bound to bring the "breaks" sooner or later, "breaks" which just have not fallen right so far. Perhaps today it will be different...
...Hemenway Gym. It has a crow's nest on top, and it, too, is yet unfinished by man's hand in the interior. Vag makes a mental note that it will make a fine camping ground for a winter afternoon and marks it on his chart. Then, night having fallen, and the navigation hazards consequently having increased, he sets the homeward course to his own private penthouse island, reckoned directly due south from the old Harvard Hall buoy...
Last fortnight prepscholars scuffing the first fallen elm leaves around Andover, Mass, held an enviable artistic privilege- or so thought William Germain Dooley, art critic of the immortal Boston Evening Transcript. Just opened at Andover's starchy, Georgian, richly-endowed Addison Gallery of American Art was the first comprehensive exhibition in New England of paintings by the late Maurice Prendergast and his brother, Charles, now 70. The Prendergasts were Boston boys whom Boston never bothered to honor. But since Impressionist Maurice has been dead for 14 years with an international reputation, home-town honors seemed at least timely...