Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third, Hu Han-min...
...Veterans. They added Ulithi, Min danao, Morotai, Halmahera and Manila to their battles and scores of enemy planes to their tally. They fought now with confidence born of experience, shepherded the bombers with cool, cocky precision...
...weeks ago, a Jap invasion fleet from Formosa nosed up to the mouth of the Min, downstream from Foochow (see map). Assault troops swarmed ashore and drove swiftly to the suburbs of the port, whose garrison had held out in hope of welcoming an Allied invasion force. Last week a second landing was made on the south bank of the Min, catching Foochow between the two Jap columns...
Harold went to Harrow and Sandhurst (Britain's West Point), became a dashing young blade, an indifferent student, a topflight track athlete. In 1914, he won the Irish mile (6,721 ft.) in 4 min. 33 sec. He chose to start his military career in the Irish Guards rather than the Coldstream Guards which his grandfather had commanded. In World War I he went over the top 30 times, was wounded twice, became a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander...
...seven, his doctor-father first let him drive his new 1902, curved-dash Oldsmobile. By the time he was eleven, Floyd was an agent (in Berthoud, Colo.) for Reo, Maxwell, Cadillac. In Floyd's motorcycling prime he broke a world's record for the 100-mile (71 min. 1916), a Pike's Peak record (26 min. 13 sec.; 1926), and his coccyx...