Word: southward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Landing effected on the bank of the Yangtze northwest of Shanghai, the Japanese pushed southward on a broad front trying to catch the Chinese army in a pincers, of which their own forces in Shanghai were the other prong. General Pai Tsung-hsi promptly began to retire to the west, covering the railroad to Nanking...
...Dute disparaging the significance of the Sicilian maneuvers, General Melchiade Gabba, directing the games, indiscreetly revealed that "Sicily was selected for the maneuvers deliberately to put the island's strategic importance in evidence. The new situation in the Mediterranean and Africa has shifted Italy's centre southward, thereby making Sicily the centre of gravity...
...years ago, children disappeared wholesale from their homes. Peasants in their fields stood and stared at a strange sight. Strung out for miles 20,000 youngsters traipsed along the cart tracks of Germany following a lad named Nicolas. In France other thousands, laughing, playing, singing hymns, made their way southward behind a lad named Stephen. The children, attacked by the same urge which had already seized their elders, were going forth to reconquer the Holy Land for Christianity. Like their elders few of them ever returned. Where the army of German children went no man ever knew. All that they...
...bridges to make sure nothing had been jarred loose. Seismologists estimated that the shock was about half as strong as the catastrophic quake of 1906. Dr. Albert Newlin of Santa Clara University said that slippage had occurred along the Hayward Fault, which runs nearly 50 mi. southward from...
While the Indianapolis drove southward through a storm its wireless crackled. Lest President Agustin Justo of Argentina feel left out, Franklin Roosevelt, even before meeting him, hastened to invite him also to the U. S. Also a request went to Pan American-Grace Airways, that the 40-passenger Pan American Clipper be held at the U. S. President's disposal in case he, having found the fishing much better on land than at sea, decide to return home...