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Word: strobe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe: "The Chang-kung Dike cannot stand for more than another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Water Woe | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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