Word: southwestern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kiangsi-"West of the (Yangtze) River"-lies in Southeastern China, at the centre of the triangle formed by Shanghai, Hankow, Canton. With neighboring Hunan it forms a natural corridor of parallel rivers and ridges from Central to Southern and Southwestern China. Chinese colonists, early British explorers like Macartney in 1793 and Amherst in 1816, the wildfire Nationalist Armies in 1926-27, the trunk line of the Peking-Hankow-Canton railway-all chose the corridor for their routes. And so, last week, did the Japanese Army...
...textile centre). The entry of one motorized unit, traveling far ahead of its support, into the heart of Warsaw, led to premature announcement of the capital's invasion on Friday. Snipers at windows, machine gunners on roofs, drove the invaders back to Warsaw's southwestern suburbs, but there the main German forces soon arrived, too, and Warsaw was hemmed in on at least two sides. To its defense from the west came Polish divisions retreating in good order out of the big pocket formed around Poznan, where the Nazi attack had been light for fear of harming...
...headed fourth Nazi onslaught was launched toward Lodz, Kielce and Cracow. Based on Bratislava in Slovakia, a fifth and sixth spearhead were driven up through the Jablonka Pass and over the steep Tatras to the East. Radomska, Czestochowa, Katowice, Teschen and Nowy Targ were the first targets of these southwestern assaults. German commanders claimed to be taking all objectives "on schedule," while the Polish defenders reported repeated counterattacks and recaptures...
James Monroe Smith was dean of the College of Education at Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette when Huey snatched him to Baton Rouge. Tall, bald, Dr. Smith shaped into an ideal academic puppet. Huey began to spend $13,500,000 on L. S. U. for sumptuous buildings, a monster swimming pool, "professional" footballers, a huge Medical Center in New Orleans. Contractors, politicians and public jobsters fattened, and the student body jumped from 2,100 to 8,550. Midway in this adventure into education, Huey announced: "If there's any title I'm proud of, it's Chief...
...powerful Eugene Ben Germany, 46, was born in Nolan county, Texas, janitored his way through Southwestern University at Georgetown. He taught school, studied geology, got in on the lush 1920 Texas oil boom. He now owns oil wells in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, raises hogs and cattle on his two farms and acts as mayor of Highland Park, fabulously wealthy suburb of Dallas...