Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's decision to ship the entire Japanese Army to China meant but one thing: Japan had committed herself to speeding up the slow process of history many times repeated in-three milleniums. At Shanghai,- nearly 100,000 Japanese troops were already involved. The campaign could no longer be fought locally. A new field of operations had been opened and the great triangle between Peiping, Shanghai and the mountains on the west had become a potential battleground...
...battle in Shanghai. Whether the navy's Shanghai move was a blunder, or whether the Japanese demands were a bluff which the Chinese called-perhaps more out of excitement than shrewdness-the result was a war big enough to endanger Japan's precarious economic structure. For the longer the war lasts, the greater, almost inevitably, will be Chinese defeats, but the greater also the danger of economic collapse in Japan...
...Sizzling platters" are made of an aluminum alloy. The hotter they are kept before being used the longer and more madly they will sizzle on contact with melted butter...
Despite the insistence of El Salvador that she was quitting the League for financial reasons, a better reason was probably to be found in the friendships she has lately made with Germany, who is no longer in the League, with Italy who, though a member, scorns...
...From 1879 to 1932 Woolworth sold no single item for more than ten cents. Since 1932 WToolworth's U. S., Canadian and Cuban stores have sold items priced up to 20?, since 1935 up to 40?, since last year up to $1 and in theory there is no longer any top to Woolworth prices. These were milestones in F. W. Woolworth Co.'s career. Another came last week when for the first time since 1911 the company sold securities for new capital...