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...Some plant injuries blamed on insects, drought, sun scorch, etc., have recently been traced by Stone's successors at Massachusetts State College to sulfur-dioxide leaks from household refrigerators and large refrigerating plants...
...session of Congress would be short and asserted, with equal vehemence, that it would be long. Peering into the New Year they could see through the darkness as far as an election-it will be a lively one, said the New York Times, "in which hard words will scorch the air and the ether, but it will be an election, not a revolution." And although many an editorial writer looked searchingly back on the '30s, no Washington correspondent pointed out that for President Roosevelt it was a historic midnight that marked the end, not of a year...
...Scorch Hankow? No sooner had Canton fallen than the Japanese announced their military timetable now called for the capture of Hankow by November 3", "The Sacred and Imperial Birthdate." This week, far ahead of schedule, the advance Japanese forces, behind a murderous airplane and artillery bombardment, hammered into Hankow. Chinese military heads, unwilling to stage a bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters...
...attached, to be upped to a maximum of $300,000,000. Delegates were enthusiastic, if mystified, when Secretary Willie A. Lawson of the Arkansas Education Association declared: "We think that a government which . . . refused to consider permanent Federal aid is using us as a cat's-paw to scorch our fingers with the burning chestnuts of political favoritism...
...Scorched. Although the present Chinese Government professes to rule in the spirit of its late and sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen's principles, not even Saint Sun's imposing granite tomb at Nanking nor the Saint's picture in every Chinese official's office deters Editor Woodhead from attempting to scorch...