Word: peakedness
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China's Roads. Because the Japanese have closed China's coast line, China must breathe through roads and railways leading to unconquered seaports. The Japanese, closing on Rangoon, were closing the entry to China's arterial Burma Road. But China had an alternative. In the wild, peaked...
White and shaken, the young lieutenant picked himself up and examined his peaked campaign hat on the ground. The shot had torn it clean off his head. Even the tough top sergeant was moved. Said he: "With the lieutenant's kind permission, may I remark that the rest of...
He became the hero of novels, the theme of poems. Some people thought he looked a little like Peter the Great, victor at Poltava (which Semion Budenny lost fortnight ago). One of the largest coal trusts in Russia was named for him. A city in the Caucasus, a town in...
Of all the men who have dreamed of a Pan-American highway, happiest dreamer last week was probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over...
Captain James Roosevelt, observer extraordinary, showed up in Cairo last week, looking a little peaked and touched with the popular complaint known as Gyppie (for Egyptian) Tummy-a light form of dysentery. Part of his peakedness came from the fact that he had just been on a remarkable desert march and had his baptism of fire...