Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...build an army policy, the 2nd one Sino-Japanese cooperation. 8) Japanese prostitute gave two performances. 9) Chinese prostitute sang songs. 10) Japanese prostitute performed, 11) Guests offer performances. 12) Everyone drank 3 cups. 13) Discussion and exchange of opinions. The press reports that it is a heroic as well as romantic meeting, heroic because so many generals participated and the military songs so great, romantic because all the scores of prostitutes are beautiful and enjoyable...
...ensuing holocaust. Once again Colonel Stimson tried to rally Britain by suggesting that the Nine-Power Treaty, guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, which Japan had signed at Washington in 1922, be invoked. Once again Sir John Simon turned his back. The Japanese, undisturbed, made mince meat of the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army...
...conclusions. The conclusions: 1) many do not enjoy living there, although almost no one would want to move away; 2) "The transfer to Washington of the basic ideas concerning the economy has reduced the New York financier to the status of a highly paid clerk. ... It is scarcely a heroic role. And it is scarcely a role upon which to sustain-let alone increase-the power of a great city. If New York had never played a more creative role than this in the formation of the capital of the country, the city would never have become the thing...
...Australian gallery bought and cleaned it, English art-lovers cried aloud to see it lost to the Antipodes. So infinite in detail and so opulent are the Madonna's cascaded red robe, blue tunic and gold embroidered background that the painting seems less a miniature than a heroic picture seen through a small window...
...Guillaumet, airmail pilot on the route surveyed by Mermoz, who, forced down in the Andes, became "the author of his own miracle" in as heroic a trek as any in exploring history. Said Pilot Guillau-met: "I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through...