Word: laine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's Army lies, and has lain for nearly two and a half years, on a tortured 2,000-mile chain of fronts from the Yellow River to the upper end of the Burma Road. The history of that chain of fronts is unique and anachronistic in World War II-there for 30 weary months has been positional warfare. China's foremost philosopher-apologist, Lin Yutang, wrote last week: "If Japan was able to report gains almost every month, why is it that in the last two and a half years Japan has made a total advance...
...known, lesser-played works. Having been fed for the past decade on a staple diet of symphonic roast beef-the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, Wagner excerpts, Von Weber overtures-it is now broadening out, rather inquisitively poking its nose into a lot of stuff that for many years has lain around in cold storage. A good deal of this stuff is plain junk, and will go right back into cold storage where it came from. But there is bound to be some interesting and excellent music dug up, music appealing to the tastes of this generation, which may find...
...nearby mountains of Auvergne; the U. S. charge d'affaires, driving to meet the new Ambassador, got only 20 miles from the capital. Still partially blacked out each night, cold, cheerless, waiting, Vichy lay paralyzed under the storm, a fitting symbol of the France that has lain half-paralyzed ever since her defeat...
...broadcast in German went placidly on with only a few seconds' interruption. Score for this bombing of Broadcasting House, belated details of which were suppressed until last week: seven deaths among men and women who went right on working in the record library where the unexploded bomb had lain...
Chechakho London would have approved of Sourdough Robertson, who knew he must die, but begrudged his body to the wolves. A searching party found the oldtimer last week. He had deliberately lain down in the stream, let the freezing water trickle over him as he settled down to sleep. The tracks of baffled wolves were all around, but the body of Sourdough Robertson was encased peacefully...