Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy fighting on the four-mile Russo-Japanese front in the Far East (TIME, Aug. 15) continued last week right up to the moment when a truce was made in general terms at Moscow. Its practical details were arranged on shell-pitted Changkufeng Hill by Japanese Colonel Goro Cho and Soviet General Grigory Shutern...
Greatest bane of Atlantic seaboard oystermen is not the four months without R but the family of Asteroidea-starfish. When a starfish wants an oyster, it wraps its arms around an oyster's shell and pulls. The oyster resists, but its shell-closing muscle eventually tires and its shell gapes. The starfish then intrudes its stomach into the opening, absorbs the oyster. To reduce the numbers of starfish preying on their beds, oystermen frequently drag frayed ropes over the sea bottom. The spiny skins of the starfish become entangled in the ropes and they are hauled to the surface...
Married. Lois Long ("Lipstick" and "L. L." of The New Yorker), divorced wife of Curtis Arnoux Peters (Cartoonist Peter Arno); and Donaldson B. Thorburn, Shell Oilman; in Manhasset...
...Food & Drink General Foods 6,868,823 6,193,578 Standard Brands 5,721,352 4,266,261 National Distillers 2,792,938 2,766,353 Petroleum Union Oil Co. of California. 5,200,000 4,950,000 Tide Water Associated. . . 7,696,701 5,992,705 Shell Union 8,480,927 5,830,437 Aircraft Douglas 525,822 1.093,149 Martin 526,307 1,372,600 Cinema Paramount 4,290,000 1,225,811 Twentieth Century-Fox (26 weeks) 3,755,483 3,419,658 d=deficit The gloominess of some of these earnings was somewhat lessened when they...
...easy for aviators to be sure where their bombs will land. No more easy, therefore, was continuance of sessions at such universities as Nanking and Ginling, in the heart of bomb-riddled Nanking. Nanking University's compound began to be rocked with dugouts and shell holes. Five of the 13 colleges were obliged to move kit & boodle inland, at great expense. Yet all 13 completed the year's work. Moreover, they carried on two extraordinary extracurricular activities...