Word: succession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biology 1 is the fundamental course in Botany. Fine lectures by Weston and individual aid from Wetmore make the course a success. It was claimed that too much atention was given to drawing ability and that the lab work was not counted strongly enough. This course has been weak in enrollment, mostly because until recently Botany has been neglected in course...
...victories in her war with Japan another was added last week. Even Japanese admitted that the city of Lanfeng, 150 miles west of Suchow, had been retaken by Chinese regulars. To the Japanese their withdrawal was strategically necessary. To the Chinese, Lanfeng's recapture was a major success. Both sides admitted that the battle for control of the strategic Lunghai Railway was not yet over, that the recent capture of Suchow had not yet caused the collapse of China's resistance on the central front. Extensively along the railway the Japanese attacked, and the war began spreading...
...President Cárdenas, these assurances brought happiness. To neutral foreigners, the wholesale pledge of loyalty from previously doubtful supporters meant simply that the ill-timed, provoked revolt of Boss Cedillo, until recently political boss of San Luis Potosí State, had little chance of success, was already crumbling...
...individuality and power. It tells of the war with the Black & Tans-ambushes, traps, the killing of spies and suspected spies-in battles that were more like U. S. gangfights than like civil war. Kilfoyle was a master of such tactics; Considine was horrified no less by Irish success than by English reprisal. When Considine was responsible for the death of a suspected spy, and then learned that the man had been innocent, his conscience rode him harder than ever. When he committed adultery with the wife of an informer, it nearly drove him crazy. When a priest refused...
...Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano in a Los Angeles mission, shifts to the trumpet under the influence of some first-class Negro musicians, and makes his first success while playing with a group of college boys at a California summer resort. Aside from his music, there is almost no story to his life: he marries a rich girl but she soon leaves him, and readers are given only cloudy pictures of their domestic life; he drinks himself into...