Word: gateway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHANGHAI--Japans motorized legions, gathering momentum as they advanced, rolled westward over the bloody battlefields of Honan Province today on the road toward Hankow, the temporary Chinese capital. Japanese reports said that the city of Lanfeng, known as "the gateway to the west," had been occupied after four days of fighting that was described as "bloodier than the battle of Suchow...
...Vice-Presidency of the U. S. is often a gateway to polite political obscurity, even more hapless Throttlebottoms are lieutenant governors of most States. Last week, therefore, their colleagues watched with interest and envy as two lieutenant governors took advantage of their chiefs' absences to make unusual news...
...last month were five and one-half more miles-from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge-of the peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic (see map). Open for business last week was another important gateway to the teeming city-the brand-new Lincoln Tunnel nosing under the Hudson River at the west end of 39th Street...
Over the $25,000 gateway to Northwestern University's downtown Chicago Campus at Lake Shore Drive and Superior St. is a wrought iron sign. Last June workmen chiseled out of it the word "campus," substituted the word "gates." Then it read Alexander McKinlock Memorial Gates. Few people noticed the change, however, and not until last week did Northwesterners learn that their university's famed McKinlock Campus had been renamed the Chicago Campus...
Tampa, cigarmaking gateway to Florida's west coast, has a reputation for lawlessness and corruption entirely out of proportion to its population (100,000). There one chilly November night nearly two years ago a police squad burst into a private home without benefit of warrants, seized the leaders of a tiny group of reformers, whisked them off to police headquarters where they were booked for "Communism." They were released with alacrity. Three of them were then escorted to waiting automobiles, driven into the country, flogged, tarred, feathered and left in a swamp. One of them, Joseph A. Shoemaker, partially...