Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to aid Dictator Chiang Kai-shek in a most ingenious way. In 1924, they recalled, Outer Mongolia broke away from Chinese sovereignty, began to revolve with the constellation of Soviet Republics, and has been heavily armed by Russia with battle planes, artillery, tanks. Outer Mongolia can now return to nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth of war paraphernalia complete with Soviet military experts into the anti-Japanese camp, yet leaving Moscow technically guiltless of having taken hostile action against Tokyo. According to the Nanking version, last week Soviet Ambassador to China Dmitry Vasilevich...
Immediately on his return from the epochal flight to Paris in May 1927, a "group" of sky opportunists snapped up Charles Augustus Lindbergh, made him "technical adviser." By 1929 this group was Transcontinental Air Transport and had the world's No. 1 civil aviator fly part of its first coast-to-coast trip over the route he had charted. When its successor, Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., was formed in 1930 it kept the slogan...
...York State Athletic Commission's Champion Mike Belloise, although the Commission still recognized Belloise because his bout with Armstrong was scheduled for ten rather than 15 rounds. Thus when Boxer Belloise, ill in The Bronx, was persuaded to exchange his championship claim for the promise of a return match, all Henry Armstrong had to do to become featherweight champion was to beat Petey Sarron...
...officially break the record because his clutch gave out and he was unable to make the required return trip over the measured course, but Captain Eyston traveled faster than man has ever traveled on land before. He was clocked over the first leg of his course at 309.6 m.p.h. Said the 40-year-old English captain, who raises chickens as a hobby: "I just sight her along the marker line and she pretty much steers herself...
BROTHER PETROC'S RETURN-S. M. C. -Little, Brown ($1.75). In this primly anonymous novel, a 15th Century Cornwall monk, entranced four centuries, comes back to a life of childish bewilderment...