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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Another Kuo? | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text Of President's Baccalaureate Address | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Border War | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Rivera was just and tolerant compared to the oppressions of the present Madrid-Valencia regime. Every day they are killing men and women simply because they are suspected of having independent opinions. All the intelligentsia of Spain, with the exception of a few who favor Communism, have had to flee for their lives out of the part of our country controlled by Largo Caballero. I wish to express my disillusionment in Republican Spain and my remorse for having taken part in creating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No Candy Drops | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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