Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formosa is some 750 miles from Tokyo, but the fact remained that "Japanese soil" had at last been bombed in the seventh month of the war. Chinese did not, however, give the credit to Mme Chiang Kaishek. They remembered last week that all during the Japanese siege of Shanghai, defending Chinese troops complained that her planes rarely ventured to bomb the Japanese in daylight, bombed them only ineffectively at night, failed to sink or score a direct hit on the Japanese flagship Idzumo which lay anchored a fair target in the Whangpoo, week after week...
...victory in Spain for the extreme Left-Communists, Anarchists and the more radical Socialists. General Franco's friends in Britain have always maintained he was ready for a "reasonable Spanish compromise," and with Hitler and Mussolini now telling Chamberlain they want not a square inch of Spanish soil, this week, for the first time in 19 months, peace in Spain became possible...
Revelation No. 2: Much more pretentiously Klim announced that the Soviet Union is today prepared to wage not only gas warfare but also germ warfare "upon the soil" of any nation which uses such weapons against Russia first...
...appointments for the current half year, include Richard G. Gettell, Amherst '33, instructor in Economics and tutor; Mikael J. Hvorslov, Technische Hochschule, Vienna '36, research fellow in Soil Mechanics; Gustav Burk '36, of Baltimore, assistant in Physics and Communication Engineering. For the first half of 1938-39, Lawrence C. S. Sickman '30, of Peiping, China, instructor in Fine Arts. For one year from next September 1 Milton C. Kloetzel, of Detroit, Michigan '37, instructor in Chemistry, and Evan C. Noonan, of New York City, instructor in Chemistry
...show approximately where he stands on Rumania's vexed Jewish question (TIME, Jan. 31, et ante). The new Constitution, it was announced, would give "equality before the law" to all ethnically pure Rumanians and also to "all people of other races who have lived for centuries on Rumanian soil," thus continuing the distinction made by Jew-baiting former Premier Goga between members of ancient Rumanian Jewish families and the great number of Jews who since the World War have crowded into Rumania as refugees. As another detail of his plan for a better Rumania, Dictator Hohenzollern also announced...