Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese soldiers advanced only by yards last week on the 30-mile zigzag front along the Grand Canal north of Suchow, key point in the defense of the crucially important Lunghai Railway in north central China. While General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Central Army, poured thousands of fresh troops into the heavy fortifications along the Yi River, the Japanese, far removed from their bases, showed signs of weariness. The Chinese "Hindenburg Line" guarding the railway still held fast...
...same short period the Baltic Fleet, backbone of the Soviet Navy, has had three different commanders: Sivkov, Issakov, and now Levchenko. Eight grand figures of the Soviet armed forces signed their names as judges to the condemnation of Marshal Tukachevsky, and of these eight at least four had by last week been purged. A fifth, Goriachev, figures in Moscow as in "doubtful standing...
...Married. Grand Duchess Kyra Kirillovna of the Romanoffs, 29, younger daughter of Grand Duke Cyril, first cousin of Russia's late Tsar Nicholas II; and Prince Louis Ferdinand of the Hohenzollerns, 30, second son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany; in Potsdam, Germany...
Died. Edward Tuck, 95, famed philanthropist; of a lung disease; in Monte Carlo. At 40 he retired from business, gave millions to Dartmouth College and French charities, was one of two Americans ever made an honorary citizen of Paris* and one of the few ever to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor...
...their logic is valid, and powerful inhibitions force them to write as they do, or to destroy the poems they sometimes write that echo an earlier period. They are specialized, but so is every other department of the modern world. Technically, the best of them are capable of writing grand, ruminating lines like Byron...