Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rifle fire. It was fitting that he should speak now, at the weekly Sun Yat-sen memorial service. For Chiang Kaishek, like Sun Yatsen, realized that in the wild and mountainous provinces of the great Northwest, China had an undeveloped treasure house. More than that, it was the last link with the outside world and a refuge for Free China if Chinese and United Nations armies were ever disastrously defeated in Asia...
During World War I an ingenious German surgeon, Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, developed a plastic operation to link the muscles of an amputated stump to an artificial arm so efficiently that the live muscles could operate the fingers of an artificial hand. In a new book two German refugee surgeons describe the classic Sauerbruch technique (Cineplastic Operations on Stumps of the Upper Extremity; Grune & Stratton...
...Missing Link. Conspicuously absent from this program is any mention of the church's-and the country's-biggest lack in fighting World War II: a great dynamic faith. Only Germany and Russia, the two nations most hostile to Christianity, have shown such a faith...
With 70 per cent of the School's students already in uniform, this latest step toward complete participation in the war effort climaxes a series of farsighted moves which began long before Pearl Harbor. First link of this transformation into a war school was the formation of the now basic Industrial Administration course...
Schoolboy. In three consecutive issues the Moscow News broke the first war year's Russian stoicism by demanding action from Russia's allies: "The beast of Berlin, badly mauled and bleeding, is fighting desperately to break through the principal link in the world chain around him. His rear is his weakest spot. . . . War abhors lost opportunities...