Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shanghai holds one of the highest places among the ports of the world in normal volume of shipping. Its customs dues are the one large and reliable source of income possessed by the Nanking Nationalists. Last week the native quarter of Shanghai was ineffectively bombed by hand grenades thrown from two hydroplanes belonging to Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin. The planes operated from the Peking cruiser Haichi which suddenly appeared before the Woosung forts, fired a few tentative broadsides and scuttled...
Using light tanks and artillery, the Japanese inflicted more than 1,000 casualties but sustained only 41. They claimed that the Nanking soldiers gave provocation for this punishment by looting in the Japanese quarter and by raping Japanese women. The Nankingese declared that the Japanese had not only fired upon them without provocation but had seized Nanking Special Commissioner Tsai-Kung-Sze, cut off his nose, gouged out his eyes, shot him dead and burned down a building over...
...Cambridge the heavy Harvard crew pushed over a rough mile and three quarters of the Charles River to nose out M. I. T. by a quarter of a length. And on other rivers other crews were practicing, watched by critics who every season go from college to college, watching workouts from launches or from the boathouse platform. Other commentators, believing that things in rowing, more than in any other sport, are decided by training methods, considered the theories and personalities of the various coaches. Most discussed last week was Edward O. Leader (Yale), gruff and domineering, who has built...
...coach has turned out as consistently fine crews as Leader. He lost two races last year: one to Harvard, when a Yale man "caught a crab," and one to Princeton, through overconfidence. The Yale crew did not raise its beat until it was inside the flags marking the last quarter mile and even at that it finished within a few feet of the winner. If it had not been for these two slips Leader would have a record of six years without a defeat. He is efficient because he is absorbed in training a crew to row, without considering...
...billion dollar corporations the first quarter earnings were...