Word: smollet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Japan's "big push" was accompanied by the bursting for the first time of stray Japanese shells in such fashion as to kill four British Tommies and wound six more by this week. Tommies had held their fire while General Telfer-Smollet flung himself flat and escaped a round of Japanese machine gun bullets fired at fleeting Chinese, but foreign tempers in Shanghai were so short that even U. S. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell gave orders that U. S. forces in Shanghai, if attacked, were to fight back...
Honorable mention was given to Roger F. Duncan '38 on his essay. "The Sen Novel from Smollet to Marryatt." The award is a prize of $50 in books...