Word: hille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese forces, advancing by land and water up the Yangtze River toward Hankow, were delayed last week besieging the Chinese Lion Hill Forts 145 miles down stream near Kiukiang. Daring Chinese fliers in swift, efficient Soviet-built planes bombed and battered Japanese river gun boats, claimed to have sunk 25 and badly damaged 19. None denied that numbers of disabled Japanese craft were being towed down the Yangtze for repairs at Shanghai, Chinese spokesmen even admitted boldly that planes which hitherto have been driving Japanese bombers away from Hankow and the other Wuhan cities last week, left this defensive work...
Best guess, however, seemed to be that the disturbance was a seiche (pronounced saysh)-that is, an oscillation in the water caused by an area of rising barometric pressure adjoining an area of falling pressure. The pressure difference would create a sort of hill and valley in the lake surface, and the big wave with its followers would result from the water's effort to resume a horizontal surface. A similar seiche, subsequently described scientifically in Naval Institute Proceedings, rose in Lake Erie off Cleveland some years ago, caused several deaths...
...base of a hill, between a dense woods and the River Scheldt in Flanders, the battle of Fontenoy was fought. From foggy morning to midafternoon the French Army (with Irish and Scottish allies), commanded by Marshal Maurice de Saxe, and an equal English force (aided by Dutch and Hanoverians), commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, engaged in confused and bitter slaughter. About noon, the English infantry broke through the French centre, obtained a foothold within the disorganized French lines, formed a hollow square against which French cavalry charged repeatedly in vain. When the English were nearly exhausted, de Saxe ordered...
...Awarded its highest honor (life membership in the N. E. A.) to 19-year-old Virginia Sappington, a $70-a-month teacher in Piety Hill School, near Chetopa, Kans., who last March herded 21 children into a ditch and saved their lives before a tornado made splinters of the school building...
...Remaining is the last pensioner from the War of 1812: Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 81, of Independence, Ore., daughter of the late Private John Hill of the New York Militia...