Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robbery and looting also flourished in Nanking for many weeks. The number of Chinese executed, not killed in battle, totals by the most conservative Nanking estimates 20,000. Excerpt from a Nanking letter written at the worst period: "One [Chinese] boy of seventeen came in with the tale of about 10,000 Chinese men between the ages of 15 and 30 who were led out of the city on the 14th [of January] to the river bank near the ferry wharf. There the Japanese opened up on them with field guns, hand grenades and machine guns. Most of them were...
Because of the energy and talent which it attracts, and the number of people it reaches, the motion picture industry has the materials to reach high artistic levels. The best of the foreign films show its potentialities in this direction. The quality of films in this country is lowered by the critical indifference of an unexacting and habitual audience. It is significant that the Cinema Guild, recognizing the need for thoughtful criticism of motion pictures, is planning a magazine towards that end. Unbiased and intelligent criticism of past and contemporary films is the best method for developing the critical faculties...
...major asset a "control ball" Curtiss stopped the Middles 7-4 on the spring trip and hurled well in relief on Johnny Mahoney in the B. U. game on Wednesday. With Ingalls on the bench with injuries, Curtiss is the number one Crimson pitcher and should come through ahead of Pennsylvania's Lefty Ruszuak...
...CRIMSON learned from Editor-in-Chief Phyllis Frederick that 550 copies of "Etc." had been printed, and it's practically a sell-out." Admitting that finances were in a some-what precarious state, Miss Frederick confessed that she was "looking for an angel," but hastily asked that her telephone number be withheld...
...situation is particularly alarming in the English department, where a large number of tutors will, at the end of the current year, either receive higher appointments or leave Harvard. As a result, many concentrators will be forced to become acquainted with a new tutor at a time when the benefits of tutorial should be reaching friction. It is expected that the sophomore year will be used breaking the ice; but when, as may be case in the English department, when a considerable number of seniors must become acquainted with three different tutors in as many years, the value...