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...call it quits. Kwantung Army communiqués announced the destruction of 39 Soviet Mongol planes, bringing its total claimed bag to nearly 500, but beside some of the earlier paper triumphs this was scarcely worth mentioning. The Japanese have learned that the more smashing victories they claim the rougher the Russians play. While Soviet bombers continued their out-of-bounds forays, nothing more was heard of the Japanese threat to carry the war into Siberia if the bombing of Manchukuoan towns was not stopped. Despite repeated reports of imminent annihilation, Soviet Mongols were still on the "wrong" side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTER MONGOLIA: Quits | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...final result was just another step in the Hanoverians' victory march, but the close score indicates that the men of Osborne Cowles are not unbeatable and that the going will be just a bit rougher from now on. The Elis were able to check Gun Broberg's goalward efforts, but Captain Dudis came through in the pinch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Indians Head League With Four Wins After Close Call Against Inspired Yale Quintet | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

Good omen of a longer, rougher role. Mrs. L. C. Jacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Practice Ceases | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...schooling at Cambridge University and London's famous Slade School. He is a hulking man of 36 with wide, intolerant brown eyes, childish brown hair and a hint of mustache. A strong draftsman with a rough sense of pictorial humor, Artist Evergood has been getting stronger and rougher right along. Last year his Art on the Beach caused fist fights in Australia where it was shown in an Evergood exhibition. Later it was purchased by Melbourne's National Gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Distorter | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...rare in these parts, there being no record of their growth here since the Yale game of 1931, except in a few isolated instances. They are individually known as barnacles-on-society, and commonly referred to as "scalpers," but somewhat longer terms have sometimes been applied to them by rougher company. They are no relation to the Indians who roamed the plains of yore, although their methods have some points of similarity. However, these do not wahoo; they whisper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INJUNS ON THE SQUARE | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

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