Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their second objective of cutting off China from receiving Soviet supplies via Outer and Inner Mongolia, captured last week Kweisui, the capital of Suiyuan. This province is the third in Inner Mongolia, Japan having taken Jehol in 1933 and northern Chahar in 1935, but although Suiyuan's capital fell last week the entire province was by no means conquered, the Soviet link...
...pasted over the broken panes of his windows, water leaking through the roof and pattering loudly into tin pans. It was impossible to talk in comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general how Japan has helped eminent Chinese-indeed Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang received his military education as a cadet in Tokyo...
...shell, bursting by accident at the intersection of Peking and Szechuan Roads killed one Chinese, tore a limb from each of four. Together one bomb and one shell killed a total of 80 Chinese and on the river splinters of shrapnel fell like rain on the decks of Japanese, U. S. and other warships. Star shells shrieked up as the night deepened, searchlights stabbed and crisscrossed the blackness, feeling for bombers, and a young U. S. officer who had been out risking his neck to see what the bloody clinches of War are like, came back with the news...
...under M. Blum when he became Premier in 1936, has now lost the wide appeal it had at first. French voters seem predominantly satisfied by the way in which Premier Chautemps has sidetracked the New Deal at the point of radical progress it had reached when the Blum Cabinet fell (TIME, June 28 et seq.). This policy canny M. Chautemps calls "the pause" and it was this which won last week...
...account for the market's slide, businessmen have talked more & more of "a major business recession." Judged by steel production, which was off almost 40 points since the spring to 55% of capacity, and by the New York Times business index, which fell below 1936 for the first time this year, this view last week appeared well founded, but third-quarter earnings have been generally awaited as the ultimate index of current business...