Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started on the 26th of August when our P.O.W. camp of 509 British, Dutch and a few Americans in the center of Japan's Northern Island was visited by four torpedo bombers from the U.S.S.Hancock. . . . They bombed us with food, tobacco, candy, TIME and LIFE, in sailor's kitbags addressed "To the men we have not forgotten." . . . The amazing cordiality, informality and fantastic speed with which we were clothed, fed, deloused, bathed, injected, inoculated and whizzed down here by Liberators and air transports, on occasion with nurses, was an epic of dynamic friendliness finding a way through...
...were busy at a traditional chore: carrying out a tidying-up expedition on a foreign shore. The forces involved numbered some 53,-ooo-almost three times the size of the whole Marine Corps in 1939. They were the Third Amphibious Corps, who had been landed on the coast of northern China (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Wall. South of the Great Wall, the great old cities of commerce and culture, which mean so much to all Chinese, were solidly in Central Government hands. U.S. air forces had just finished transporting Chungking's Ninety-Fourth Army from Shanghai (see ARMY & NAVY) to Peiping, the stately northern capital. Twenty-five thousand U.S. marines were in Tientsin, where they had accepted the Japanese surrender...
...underground factory. Strangers wandered in & out at will. But the explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought a quick change. The security police moved in, and Germans who had worked in the factory were rounded up, put back to work. Former officials of the Krizek Works were kept out. In northern Bohemia the Russians took over the Jachymov mine, famed for its uranium deposits...
Robert Benchley '12, when he was an undergraduate, found the following question on an hour exam in a Gov course: "Discuss the Northern Fisheries case from the point of view of the important question of international law." Benchley was not prepared, having been out on a Lampoon binge the night before, and started off his answer as follows: "I should like to discuss this case from a new angle--namely, from the point of view of the fish...