Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a mighty, sickening temblor rocked the northeast coast of Honshu, main island of the Japanese Empire, experienced seacoast folk shouted not "Jishin!" (earthquake) but "O Tsunami!" (big tidal wave) and streaked for the hills last week...
...behalf of the Central Government, I pledge you that we will never give up the northeast, we will never give up Jehol. The enemy may blockade our ports, they may even capture Nanking, but there will be no one to sign terms of surrender...
...That Japan's custodianship of Manchukuo (i. e. of formerly Chinese territory northeast of the Great Wall) is "a new and effective guarantee that has been established for the maintenance of peace in the Far East" with "universal advantage thereby accruing to the peoples of the world" including "Chinese themselves." ¶ That Japan constitutes herself the defender of the Far East against Soviet encroachment, for "should the Red movement . . . gain in strength as a result of Chino-Russian rapprochement that would be a serious menace to peace in the Orient, against which Japan must certainly be on guard...
...shivered two days later from earth tremors in all her four provinces: Cape of Good Hope, seat of Cape Town at Africa's nether tip; Natal on the east coast; the inland Orange Free State; and the Northern Transvaal, seat of Pretoria, the. Union administrative capital, 850 mi. northeast of Cape Town. Severest shocks were felt in Natal where brick houses cracked open, some collapsing. In Johannesburg, largest South African city (pop. 288,000) 40 mi. south of Pretoria, doors and windows rattled, bric-a-brac fell off mantel pieces and fearless white correspondents cabled "the natives were terrified...
...least use of his two tools, gas and ballast. A U. S. team won the 1913 Bennett race from Paris when, instead of grounding before they reached the Atlantic as did all other balloons, they continued out to sea, knowing they would strike a wind that would carry them northeast to England. This year all gas bags carried radios to receive weather reports. Contrary to experience in nearly all balloon races held in the U. S., no balloons were shot at by the peasantry...