Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women. In northern Luzon, the 32nd Division's all-male 107th Medical Battalion baseball team played the Bayom-bong Filipino Girls' Club, lost the game...
...Gamblers. The reports for the first time gave eye-popping details of the Jap attack. On Nov. 27-28, a Jap task force, carefully and particularly trained for its mission, set sail from Tankan Bay in northern Japan and headed east, in radio silence. Its orders were to sink any vessel it should meet, even Japanese; nothing must be left to a chance betrayal of its course. In the force were six carriers carrying (said the Board) some 424 planes,*two battleships, three cruisers and a destroyer division...
With his ancestors' 700-year-old samurai sword buckled at the side of his faded, patched uniform, fierce, bullet-headed General Tomoyuki Yamashita came trudging out of northern Luzon's Caraballo Mountains...
...Chiang, just back from military training in Moscow, had the job of organizing the Whampoa Military Academy, the nucleus of China's new nationalist army. Mao and Chou were his comrades and the army's political commissars. From Canton the three men marched together on the famed Northern Expedition (1926-27), which gave republican China its first taste of unity. They split when Chiang broke with the Kuomintang's Communist wing and its Russian boss, shrewd Michael Borodin...
Many a scientist promptly divided Europeans into: 1) the "superior" dolicho cephalic northern and Mediterranean races, and 2) the "inferior" brachycephalic or mesocephalic Central European (Alpine and Dinaric) races, supposedly the product of mixture with invading brachycephalic hordes from Asia...