Word: skirmishes
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...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...
Four touchdowns were scored by the Varsity yesterday afternoon in a regular scrimmage with the Seconds which had developed out of a line skirmish...
Rubens soon proved his usefulness to the Cuban exiles as a lawyer and was made General Counsel and utility man to the "Cuban Junta." In 1895 Gómez and Marí'i landed in Cuba for the final struggle. Martí was soon killed in a skirmish, but Gómez joined forces with Macéo and spread revolt over the whole island. Meantime the Junta in the U. S. had the job of keeping the Cuban "army" supplied with guns and ammunition. Rubens became an expert organizer of filibustering expedi tions, an equally expert defense lawyer for arrested...
...Concord, Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...
...kidnapping Finland's George Washington, Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, her first President. General Wallenius was in the news again last week. At the head of 5,000 Lapuan Finnish Fascists he marched on Helsinki, the capital. Government troops met the advance 25 miles from the city where a skirmish occurred and the Lapuan march prudently halted. General Wallenius contented himself with hurling an ultimatum at the Finnish Government threatening civil war unless all Marxist & Socialist members of the Government were removed from office...