Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing of the fact of Clint Frank's four touchdowns, one on the first play, gives Harvard little reason to relax during the coming week. Yale appears to be right in the prime and to have used the Princeton game as a great warming-up skirmish...
...Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland winter has already come, but Mongolian troops allied with the Japanese last week spurred their shaggy little ponies over hard-crusted snow to engage Chinese defenders and press them back in indecisive skirmish warfare...
...reputation for scrupulous fairness. That he would tolerate no undue fuss and delay became apparent when he succeeded in getting a jury chosen on the first day, instead of allowing the week that had been estimated would be necessary. His sternness was also apparent in the first skirmish of the trial, when Prosecutor Hammond Edward Chaffetz, 30, who has been with the Department of Justice since graduation from Harvard Law School seven years ago, tried to forestall the obvious plan of the defense to shoulder all blame on the New Deal. Prosecutor Chaffetz asked Judge Stone to forbid the defense...
More than three months ago a sharp skirmish on Peiping's suburban marble Marco Polo Bridge started the present war in China. By last week Japan had spent or appropriated $737,000,000, had landed 200,000 men in China-almost its entire standing army-and suffered untold thousands of casualties to prosecute that war. The war that was intended merely to nip off the Peiping section and possibly rich "model" Shansi Province, Shantung and Suiyuan, now covered China's entire 2,150 mi. coastline...
...been known as a friend of public power, a foe of C.I.O. Somewhat excitable by temperament, Mr. Hoffman by last week was downright jumpy. Though Monroe, Mich., where C.I.O. was beaten fortnight ago when Republic Steel's local plant was reopened after a brisk picket line skirmish, is not in Congressman Hoffman's district, a brief visit there was enough...