Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most decisive fight was the capture by Japanese of the twelve-mile-long Nankow pass, strategic gateway to Chahar Province. For 16 days Japanese battalions had struggled with dogged Chinese defenders in pouring rain and a sea of mud. Victory came when the Chinese flank on a 4,000 ft. ledge mounting the pass was turned by Japanese, who crossed the mountains to the west, savagely attacked from above with boulders and bayonets...
...Lying-in Hospital. She wanted to know whether, if she married, her children would inherit ears like hers. She had three brothers and one sister with similar cupped ears, three brothers and three sisters with normal ears. Speaking for all eleven she asked whether they were going to pass on the embarrassing abnormality to their children...
...line's Manhattan office, twelve to 24 hours before docking, certifying that no cases of dangerous contagious disease are aboard. This message is relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus saving hours for the passengers, hours and dollars for the ship's operators (TIME, Feb. 1). The Hansa was one of 84 ships having this privilege...
...after all the fundamental reason most people come here at all, are not relegated to a secondary position. The average undergraduate, and anyone who can get into Harvard can qualify as being at least average, can well manage to spend most or all of his afternoons on athletics, pass his studies with whatever rank he's set as his goal, and still have a couple of evenings off for whatever he calls amusement...
...Mansell possessed. For ten months microscopic amounts of dynamite were stolen from the quarry, until enough was collected for a sizeable explosion. The plan-hinging on bribery of guards and perfect timing-was for Mansell presumably to be buried under rock, while he escaped on a truck scheduled to pass at the moment. The explosion went off on schedule, the truck passed on time, but Mansell got cold feet at the last moment, was cursed by a Socialist who escaped in his place. From then on, Mansell's dissolution was a study in descending discords. Although readers will...