Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers, went briskly to work. Near by were 2,500 Chinese troops under anti-Japanese General Ma Chan-shan. As to how the battle began there were indeed "misunderstandings." Each side charged the other with opening fire without provocation. For three hours there was a battle, but of the peculiar Manchurian kind. Only 15 Japanese were reported killed as their comrades slew 120 Chinese, advanced and drove General Ma's remaining troops flying before them toward Tsitsihar. Later General Ma returned to the attack with a much larger force, dislodged Japanese from their advance positions but did not recapture...
Publisher Delacorte has three daughters and two sons, one a sophomore at Princeton. His only game is Kelly pool; his favorite diversion, playing the flute, was taught him by famed Georges Barrere. Because the first office building that housed his company had doors which swung open in a peculiar manner, he has chosen buildings with similar doors for succeeding sites...
...Soviet government is making every effort to discourage drinking," he said, "with the result that the country is coming rapidly to temperance." Instead of prohibition, the government takes the much simpler method of raising the price of vodka, and because of the peculiar economic system this method is effective...
Given a script written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and a cast composed of prominent Paramountites, and entertainment is in the nature of a foregone conclusion. "Rebound" has the cheery banter, the rapid repartee, the nonsensical chit-chat that is peculiar to Mr. Stewart's humor. And yet the picture has a high specific gravity, gathering body as it goes, until a climax of seriousness and deep dramatic interest is attained. "Rebound" is the story of a woman who marries the man of her love after he has been jilted by another. Follows a period of short-lived happiness, until...
...Australia came a story of two large creatures. One was an old mining prospector called ''Big Jim," 6 ft. 8 in., 250 Ib. "Fossicking" for opals on the Stuart Range of Central Australia,* he heard a peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...