Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steamer, lay beside the captured vessels, covered at point blank range by the Yang artillery. To break this deadlock, intolerable to British amour propre, H. M. S. Cockchafer and H. M. S. Wigdeon, both river warships of the highest armament, steamed close to shore, drew the fire of the land batteries and shelled the city of Wanhsien...
Battle. The British auxiliary Kiawo at once opened fire on the land batteries, and all three British warships steamed close to the captured British merchantmen, in an effort to rescue their officers and passengers. The Kiawo steamed under the lea of the Wanhsien and effected a rescue of all Occidentals on board after a hand to hand fight with the Chinese. General Yang's well directed artillery fire made it impossible to board the Wantung, but the British warships stood by at a distance and picked up the Wantung's crew and passengers who leaped overboard...
...Dutch name for this monster lizard is boeaja darat (land crocodile). Science calls him varanus komodensis, identifying him as a big cousin of the African monitor lizard. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum, sailed last March with Manufacturer and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan on the same quest the Burdens last week completed (TIME, March 22). The Burdens also collected: seven rare specimens of poisonous snakes (dead); a 450-lb. saddleback tapir with a 40-in. snout (alive...
Heavy rains last week did not improve such arrangements as the city fathers of Philadelphia had made for the biggest aeronautical event of the year, the National Air Races. The fathers had selected a tract of land called Model Farms, four feet below the level of the Delaware River on the southwest edge of town. Last week pilots and spectators concluded that it was a model farm for rice-growing only...
...bones of flyers who have fallen on land from altitudes of 1,000 ft. or more, usually have to be dug out of the ground from beneath their flesh, through which they, being harder, are driven at the body's impact with the earth...