Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the coast. Though they had been poorly armed in the past (they even used wooden cannon-see cut-which they actually fired from), they now seemed better armed. They had already begun a surreptitious investment of Shanghai, China's biggest city and biggest port, near the mouth of the Yangtze River, control of which carries with it control of most of southern China...
...West Point's present Superintendent, Major General Francis H. Wilby, invited criticism of the shortened curriculum from a board of consultants including Presidents Ernest M. Hopkins of Dart mouth and Karl T. Compton of M.I.T...
...wanders so far from the drawing room, Katherine Hepburn, in her original role, is ever the actress, never a "star." Spencer Tracy, whom she marries without love and in haste, to succumb at leisure, is ever Spencer Tracy: a big teddy-bear shock-absorber in whose farm-boy's mouth the clever lines seem sometimes out of place...
...their captives. Allied chemists perfected a special restorative food for humans who are so starved that they cannot digest ordinary fare. The food, of powdered amino acids, is made from milk, meat, eggs, beans and fish, and is called protein hydrolysate. It may be taken in solution either by mouth or by vein. A six-ton shipment, made in the U.S., was on the way to The Netherlands last week...
...invitation to study potential hydropower sites, asked to visit the Yangtze gorge. The bleak area was a fighting zone, but the Chinese Army guaranteed Savage safe conduct. In quiet broken by occasional rifle shots from the sleeping front, Savage charted possible dam sites except those above Ichang at the mouth of the gorge, which was in Jap hands...