Word: onward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Onward flow and do thy duty...
...ashore had heard the ship's band playing the Capetown's special quickstep, and it was that same march that the Chinese band of grateful General Yeh Peng blared through the corridors of Asiatic Petroleum Co. while his officers, bearing their banner with its strange device, tramped onward...
...Mongolia by Russian propaganda and cheap goods, Japan is faced with the grim possibility of a Sovietized Asia, whose markets will forever be closed to Japanese goods and whose revolutionary foreign policy will constitute a perpetual threat to the security of the Island Empire. Unless Japan can stop the onward rush of the Russian Bear, she is faced with the grim probability of starvation and defeat. While it is possible to see the justification of Japan's fear of Russian expansion, it is a little too much when Mr. Rea paints a lurid picture of the nations of the world...
...twelve hours the ocean was not sighted once beneath the moonlight-flooded clouds. At dawn the Clipper broke through the grey mists overhanging Oahu Island, sped onward in the bright sunlight of a Hawaiian morning, to make a 150-mi. survey of landing areas. Then, within one minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper...
...Dictator, who has been from 1930 onward a merciless exterminator of Russia's more prosperous peasants or kulaks, is now ready, announced Comrade Yakovlev, to readmit "repentant kulaks" to cultivation of Russia's farm lands. Since Stalin has exiled some 1,000,000 kulaks to Siberia, where many have died, Russia can now count on the return of the remainder in the guise of "repentant kulaks" to her most fertile lands. Originally these folk were the Soviet Union's most able soil tillers. "These former class enemies," cried Comrade Yakovlev last week, "will now receive lenient treatment...