Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many years ago, a gentleman from Princeton took occasion to remind a Harvard audience that the American flag was a flag of revolt, that only perpetual revolt could bring consistent progress. Today Mr. Wilson is dead, but the Harvard department of Americana is trying to carry on this tradition of denying tradition...
...ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang's Own"-the famed 88th Division of Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Japanese troops, advancing at sunrise under their Empire's Rising Sun flag, soon had the warehouse surrounded on three sides, the fourth being toward the British position in Shanghai's International Settlement. As Japanese light artillery poured converging fire into the warehouse, it flamed in world headlines as "The Chinese Alamo...
...Axelsson saw three and heard reliably of six Rightist submarines which base their activities at Majorca. These flew the Rightist flag but "the natives," cabled Observer Axelsson, "naïvely and frankly suggested that the big ones might have been bought from Italy...
...early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During the War a lady gave me a Sinn Fein flag for the church and I flew this from the church together with a St. George's flag for England, and a red flag for the International. Those flags afterward became the occasion for riots. We ultimately lost the flags, but the preaching continued as ever in support of Him who helpeth...
...that the officials do not favor this type of fish. (In fact it is doubtful if they would favor any type of fish if the officials took Friday lunches in college dining halls.) Persons in touch with the shark situation, nonetheless, sometimes dream of an express liner flying the flag of the Harvard Department of Shark Hunting and touching at lonely islands in the South Pacific, four full professors playing quoits on the sports deck and the watch singing out "Shark Ahoy...