Word: lwan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese advance pounded in toward Peiping from Kupei Pass on the north and the Lwan River on the east, the Tokyo War Office persisted in its old declarations that Tientsin and Peiping would not be attacked. Said a young attache with a marked Oxford accent...
After pushing a slow and bloody advance for three weeks in the area east of the Lwan River, Japanese troops along the Yellow Sea coast between the Great Wall and Tientsin were suddenly halted last week, faced about...
...matter how hard Japan sat on the Chinese dragon's head there was still many a good twitch in its tail. Reports persisted that Lwanchow, strategic city on the south bank of the Lwan River, was still being held last week by its Chinese defenders despite repeated Japanese attacks. Most surprising news came from Berlin...
...recital by lwan d'Archambeau, former violinist of the Flonzaley Quartet, and Bruce Simonds, planist, a member of the Yale Music Faculty, is to be given tomorrow evening in Paine Hall, Harvard Music Building, at 8.15 o'clock through the courtesy of Mrs. F. S. Coolidge...