Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found a nine-mile front along the Khalka River southeast of Lake Bor on which the opposing armies were pounding each other with planes, tanks and light artillery. A Soviet-Mongol force, he cabled, had fought its way last month across the Khalka and occupied a series of commanding heights from which it raked the Japanese lines with machine-gun fire. Last week three days of continuous Japanese attacks succeeded in dislodging the Mongol flanks, but the centre clung to its positions. Despite rains that turned the dusty plain into a quagmire, both sides dragged up heavy artillery. Japanese reinforcements...
Referring to your statement [p. 15, TIME, June 19] that "incalculable tons of water has cascaded over Niagara Falls between 1776 and a summery night last week when the great-great-great-grandson of England's George in was trundled across Niagara River to set foot in the U. S. A.," may I take the liberty of suggesting that the amount of said water is calculable...
...Director Kanin and Screenwriter Norman Krasna in collaboration produced an excellent script, but Krasna got so jittery in the process that he says he "began looking longingly at a river I know...
...Ford Sunday Evening Hour, CBS. Substitute: Ford Summer Hour, on the air since June 11 with light, instead of symphonic, music and, instead of sermons by Ford Spokesman William J. Cameron, chats about River Rouge plant doings by a Rouge reporter (Ken Laub...
...prosperous town of 13,862 inhabitants, you can buy pretty much everything in the way of standard U. S. commodities, entertainment, even a good many luxuries. But if you want to read a book in Phenix City, you must either borrow one or go across the Chattahoochee River to Columbus, Ga. Phenix City has no bookstore. It has no library either...