Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Century royal grant. Ignorant of New World geography, the Spanish Crown granted conflicting titles to two audiencias (old Spanish territorial divisions). The Latin-American republics formed after winning independence from Spain generally followed the old Crown grants. From 1810 on the Chaco dispute smoldered. Although in 1894 a straight line was arbitrarily drawn to indicate the two borders, the controversy continued and in 1932 it burst into a declared war. No less than 18 attempts at arbitration of the dispute failed. The League of Nations once imposed an arms embargo, the U. S. followed suit. Finally the Pan-American Conference...
...their horses, supplies and heavy guns, were ferried ashore where they split into two columns. One headed north for Waichow, whence a highway leads into Canton, and by week's end its artillery and bombers had the city in flames. The other struck westward to cut the rail line between Canton and Hong Kong. Beating off scattered Chinese resistance, it reached the line, blew up the tracks at a point only 15 miles north of Hong Kong...
Severance of this line cut the main artery over which munitions purchased by Chinese in Europe and shipped into Hong Kong have eventually reached Generalissimo Chiang-the 700-mile Canton-Hankow Railway. At week's end Japanese contingents landed on both sides of the Pearl River delta, one column slashing communications between Canton and Portuguese Macao on the coast, another striking on the east bank near Hong Kong. A Japanese War Office spokesman announced in Tokyo: "Japan is fixed in her determination to crush Chiang Kai-shek's regime; we do not intend to take Hong Kong...
...have to rouse the whole world" said Gillies and Grenfell in a joint statement. "The Czechs will now forfeit within a few days the claim to the worldwide sympathy they have deservedly won if they drive back to torture and death at the hands of the Nazis these front-line Soldiers of Democracy...
Excellence of The Wind lay not only in its severe economy of line, color and composition but in its classic clarity of mood. By comparison People (see cut), by U.S. Artist Arnold Blanch, winner of third prize ($500), seemed a stiff bit of social consciousness greatly damaged by the fumbling inclusion of Washington, D.C. In the U.S. section of 102 paintings, critics found as great or greater pleasure in Bernard Karfiol's big, soft Summer; John Marin's Sea with-Red Sky, a small canvas with a whipped cream lather of white paint which at 60 feet carried...