Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang, and last week he meted out to the starvation-worn Wuchangese the quixotic terms of a typically Chinese peace...
...claims of 191 are established-22 denied. The most imposing beatifications in centuries took place last week at St. Peter's. The reading of the papal decree, proclaiming these martyrs blessed, fell appropriately to Mgr. Gromier, French Prelate, and preceded the pontifical mass. Then his Holiness, Pius XI, in snowy white, seated in the sedia gestatoria (sanctified chair) and escorted by twenty cardinals in scarlet, was borne through enormous crowds-full diplomatic corps and all other distinguished Rome-to the basilica, to venerate the newly canonized. Incense rose, heads bowed, throngs cheered...
...northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever since been cruelly besieged. Reputedly 10,000 Wuchangese have died of starvation. Last week the besiegers came to terms with the besieged. The cycle of revolution which began a decade and a half ago has ringed China with warfare and returned to its point of ignition, the Yangtze...
...citizens of the city. ". . . Be good sports today . . . fair to the Yanks . . . not as unsportsmanlike as painted. . . ." Readers recalled that the vigorous instincts of St. Louis baseball rooters had caused pop bottles to be banished from the stands. The team, returning from Manhattan, was given a frenzied welcome. Rain fell at midnight. It was still falling in the afternoon. Standing on the pitcher's mound, the only dry spot on the field, Jesse Haines, a garage keeper from Phillipsburg, Ohio, held the Yankees to five hits. Still unsatisfied, he grasped a slim yellow bat and drove...
Sixth Game. Awkward Gehrig reached for a curve. Koenig watched three strikes go by. Collins, getting into the game in the ninth with his team eight runs behind, swung three times at nothing. These and other able Yankee gentlemen fell victims to the wiles of a man whom the sports writers have in past seasons mentioned alternately as a rake and a curmudgeon, the grim Grover Cleveland Alexander. Long before the game he declared that he would win. He chewed tobacco and went to sleep on second base. But with the young bats of his cardinal-hatted friends rat-tatting...