Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurtling through the bursts of its own anti-aircraft fire, when it locks horns with the protecting pursuit in swirling mass dogfight, military textbooks can be thrown away. For when the day's bloody work is over, the military schools will have fact for the next fight, instead of theory...
...Gerald Balding, high-goal polo player, who was to have played in next week's open championships at swank Meadow Brook Club, L. I., reported to the British Embassy in Washington for instructions...
...Gale" to blow all the white men out of China. Last week the Japanese took out their pretty fans to sharpen the wind. Politely, firmly the Government announced that if other powers wished to remove their troops from China, Japan would be honored to "protect" their nationals and interests. Next move might be less polite, more firm -an ultimatum to Britain and France...
...England, sober dons beetled back early to Oxford and Cambridge, which announced they would open as usual for the Michaelmas term next month. Both universities expect subnormal enrollments. Cambridge began to remove the 16th Century glass from its King's College chapel. Oxford gave up some of its buildings for hospitals...
...Finland halted preparations for the 1940 Olympic Games scheduled to be held at Helsingfors next summer, pondered their cancelation-just as the 1916 Olympics, scheduled for Berlin, were called off because of World War I. Although Germany was mum on the subject last week, sportsmen the world over took it for granted that the 1940 Winter Olympics were off. They had been awarded to Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen after Japan had chucked them, along with the summer Olympics, because of the "incident" in China...