Word: flee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense of humor, that leading Chinese characteristic, somewhat lightened the tragedy of flight from the Capital last week. Discharged but grinning Govern-ment clerks called to each other such jokes as "See you in Sinkiang!"-thus jocularly implying that the Government may ultimately flee 2,000 miles to remote Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan...
...picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting Gate, but panic-stricken Chinese peasants continued to flee in from the countryside...
...world, one flesh and one devil which we must combat or flee. Today there are many--many at least in appearances; one devil at the bottom of them all, perhaps, if your theology inclines you so to state the case of man's ever-recurring ills. Each worlds has its own formulas, its own incantations, its own tests of conformity, its own methods of excommunication. In some lands the more independent spirits are physically coerced if the social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing...
...Canada's patriotic masses, but also to placate conservative voters hitherto repelled by his loud New-Dealishness. Nor could his countrymen be unaware that the U. S. headlines "Mitch" Hepburn was making were prime advertising of Canada as a haven to which timorous U. S. Industry might flee from upsurging U. S. Labor...
...WOULD BE PRIVATE-Rose Macaulay -Harper ($2.50). Horrified by the publicity of quintuplet parenthood, upright London Policeman McBrown & family flee in vain to a remote Caribbean island...