Word: frontality
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...Surprised Chinese battled the Japanese landing parties hand-to-hand, but the Son of Heaven's troops gained a solid footing, preparatory to Japanese efforts to nip off Shanghai from the rest of China by closing pincers from the North and South, now that Japan's frontal attack has failed to take Shanghai for 13 weeks. This week 39 Japanese destroyers and shallow draft gunboats were bombarding the Shanghai peninsula's southern coast and the Japanese landing force, variously estimated between 5,000 and 25,000 had advanced to within 15 mi. of Shanghai...
...front part of Patricia Maguire s brain with which she normally would have done her thinking was withered. A mid-part was scarred by an old inflammation. Both conditions almost totally destroyed her ability to move her head, eyes, jaws, tongue, shoulders, hips, legs, knees. The withered frontal lobe proved most interesting to Northwestern's pathologists, for it was not directly affected by the attack of encephalitis lethargica which rendered the young woman inert. Dean Irving Samuel Cutter of Northwestern offered this explanation: "The first stages of encephalitis are sleep, paralyzing of certain cranial nerves, general weakness and acute...
...streets of Madrid. Twenty miles southeast of Saragossa is the mountain-encircled town of Belchite, which boasts a nearby airdrome and is a most important strategic point on General Franco's long Saragossa-Teruel salient. For five days Leftist heavy artillery blasted at Belchite, then came the direct frontal attack led by suicidal dinamiteros. Fighting from house to house the Leftists wiped out two whole companies in Belchite's town hall, captured a detachment entrenched in a seminary and took the town. Leftists announced 1,500 Rightists had been killed, 1,000 captured including 600 who had been...
...Conference which many delegates were determined to develop into a frontal attack on Fascism, there might have been likelier promoters than Churchman Brown, the scion of the banking Brown Brothers who married Anne Spencer Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who lives well on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and planned after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding...
...artillery. Immediate objective of the Anarchist Black-&-Reds was the Barcelona telephone exchange, a building almost as imposing as the telephone skyscraper of Madrid. This they seized and held for seven hours. Hero of the revolt then became Barcelona's Police Chief Rodriguez Sola, who personally led a frontal attack on the building, captured the first floor, methodically started mopping up from stair to stair...