Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's four aircraft carriers. Most were slowly steaming back & forth to avoid almost constant sniping from Chinese on shore. At times there were as many as 20 Japanese warships in the Whangpoo which discharged and reloaded swarms of airplanes, swung their heavy guns to shell first one section of Shanghai and then another, and ferried every available sailor and marine ashore, for in such a battle, as the Japanese soon found, even the navy fights in town...
...corner of the famous Bund which skirts the Whangpoo, and Nanking Road, heart of the section where Americans congregate, the sky fell fortnight ago when a Chinese air bomb intended for the Idumo fell, plunk!, into the Palace Hotel (No. 10 on the map). Another, a mile away, snuffed out 500 lives when it plunked into the Great World Amusement Palace, crammed with gibbering Chinese...
Concentrating their forces last week in the Hongkew section, the Chinese drove down towards the river through the eastern extension of the International Settlement, until the Japanese warships opened fire to support their forces on land. Across the river on the right bank other Japanese troops tried to push back Chinese defending forces. Down from the Bund through this crossfire Americans were ferried to the mouth of the Whangpoo where ships picked them up to carry them to sea and safety. Meantime Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell placed the U. S. S. Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection...
...nation's 40,000 professional dog breeders and the owners of pets raised in the unnatural conditions of the city.* These veterinarians are up on many of the latest medical wrinkles. At Omaha last week one specialist showed how to deliver a city-bred bitch by Cesarean section, another adroitly gave a blood transfusion to a dog suffering from shock...
...edge of a desolate section of fog-ridden moors, the grey, ancient English prison of Bleakmore was almost impregnable, had harbored so many generations of convicts that it smelled "of the primal basic filth of old humanity, of the things forgotten when the oldest cities began." Although fogs sometimes came down while convicts were working in the quarries and on the moors (blotting out the prison road in an hour), convicts who escaped under cover of it were easily caught because all outlets were guarded. When a young convict asked, "What's the chances for a stoppo [jailbreak] ?" oldtimers...