Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting at all, a seaport south of the Shantung peninsula, connected with railroads at Peiping and Nanking at Suchow. Japanese warships were off Haichow harbor, but did this mean more than the blockade of Chinese ports? If Japan had enough men to spare to land a third army at Haichow she could cut off help from Nanking to the Chinese armies of the north...
China's coast is 2,150 miles long, but even if Japan did not have the third largest fleet in the world, an effective blockade of China would still be a far easier move than an effective blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding...
Ordinarily about 1300 undergraduates, or more than a third of the college enrollment, registers for work with the Student Employment Office, which is under the direction of Russell T. Sharpe '28. In addition about 500 graduate students usually apply for work...
Even more extensive additions were made to Sever Hall, across the Yard. To comply with public safety regulations, the stairway on the south, or Widener end of the building was made continuous from the first to the third floors, and an emergency exit was provided at the south end. At the north, or Memorial Church end, a new stairway for emergency use only was built, and a new, emergency exit was cut into the northeast corner of the building to serve the assembly room, Sever 11. Further an additional stairway from the third floor corridor to the fourth was constructed...
...With the third chapter-"Doctoring Under Difficulties"-Wild Animal World goes into pure-anecdotage. There are fascinating tales of the infirmary: how cataracts were taken from the eyes of a rhinoceros; how a carrying case had to be invented for porcupines; how leather boots had to be made for a young elephant with weak ankles. And from the fund of experience laid up during 38 years at the zoo, Dr. Ditmars recalls the time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once...