Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Christ, history has repeated itself in China. A warlike people, coming usually from the north, covets the vast fertile plains lying north and south of the peninsula of Shantung (see map, p. 18). Advancing step by step in a few years or a few generations, they seize the ground they covet. Such was evidently the modest plan of the Japanese who know their history when, advancing from Manchukuo, they set out in July to take possession of the northern part of Hopei Province. Their plans for an inexpensive pay-as-you-go conquest was rudely upset by the explosion...
...strange tale of 14 men in a boat came out of the British-owned Bahamas last week. On the beach near Mayari, Cuba, startled fishermen looked up from their work to see a motor launch, propelled by a sail pieced out of dirty shirts and trousers, ground itself in the shallow-water. Out of the rudderless boat tumbled five Americans, nine British West Indian Negroes. Wolfing food and water, the first they had seen in four blistering clays, the tattered survivors gasped out a story of riot, rebellion on Great Inagua,* southernmost of the Bahamas, 50 miles from the Cuban...
England has long boasted the so-called "Queen Bee" type of airplane which takes off, flies and lands without a soul aboard, being controlled by radio from the ground or by an accompanying plane. As yet it has no military importance because the system breaks down as soon as the "Queen Bee" gets out of sight of the operator. Last week the U. S. Army Air Corps announced in enigmatic but unusually enthusiastic language for that reticent group that it had gone the "Queen Bee'' one better. According to the Air Corps, an old single-motored Fokker...
...usual familiar coronal streamers, which have completely dominated eclipse photographs taken from the ground, and which have absorbed most of the scientific attention up to now, appear on the new plates as relatively insignificant bright tracery in the immense globular envelope...
...descend the stairs, we have an excellent view of the stacks of the University Library. There are ten floors of fireproof stacks, seven above and three below ground. In front of you we get a better view of the murals by John Singer Sargent...