Word: strays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair opportunity to scramble to safety. Now it looms over him, and the Vagabond looks at it and does not move. he knows he could perhaps move his head and body out of the way by a frantic effort. But he also knows he is certain to lose a stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better...
Yesterday Eliot House members reported that a man in a bowler hat had been looking for a stray...
...Twice a stray dog made its appearance on the field, once stopping the play. But everything seemed to have its redeeming features on Saturday, even the snow which might have been rain. This dog was a Dalmation, and what more aristocratic breed of dog could be desired to upset the Harvard-Yale classic...
Amid this tension, Japanese officers, who said they would like to attend last week the funeral of four British soldiers slain by stray shells fortnight ago, were refused permission by the British. Chinese officers were permitted to attend and a swarm of Chinese students dashed through Shanghai streets cheering and waving banners inscribed: "LONG LIVE OUR BRITISH FRIENDS...
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...