Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tech 10-0 in the season opener, while Harvard deluged the Engineers under an equal barrage of goals. To date the Varsity has won over M. I. T. the Boston Lacrosse Club, and Brown by substantial scores, while typing the U. S. Naval Academy and dropping a close skirmish with St. John's, the strongest club in Maryland...
Armed revolts against the Machado Government were admittedly in progress last week in Cuba's eastern provinces, but there seemed to be no coordinating leadership, no Revolution with a big R. Bands of guerrillas raided towns and military outposts, burned plantations, cut wires, dynamited railroad tracks. A bloody skirmish was fought in Camaguey province. In Oriente rebels burned 200,000,000 Ib. of sugar cane at the Manati sugar mill. At Manzanillo a mob stormed the office of Cuban Electric Co. (subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share). Four trains were derailed. Another reached Havana bullet-riddled...
Every few hours last week either the Government of Colombia or the Government of Peru would announce that a skirmish had been fought, a river gunboat bombed or an airplane shot at in the vicinity of Leticia, the remote, malarial jungle town on the upper Amazon ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922, seized by Peruvian irregulars last September, squabbled over ever since (TIME...
...tire prices had been slashed as much as 56%. All dealers did a roaring but highly unprofitable business as private owners and truck fleet operators jammed in to buy tires for the next two or three years. Next day the big Akron rubber companies wired stern orders for the skirmish to cease. Back up went Cleveland's tire prices even faster than they had come down...
...peaceful settlement on a basis approximating the status quo-not a whisper of the terms leaked out. Meanwhile, however, the Japanese advance to occupy Jehol Province (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.) was not pushed last week. Japanese planes reconnoitered and dropped a few bombs but no battle or skirmish of importance took place...