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...blow caused western wiseacres to proclaim that Japan had won the war. But the capture of the Canton-Hankow railway terminals instituted a new period of Chinese resistance. With Chiang's capital removed to Chungking in interior Szechwan, a new motor road was completed across mountain ranges and torrid jungles to British Burma, which fronts on the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Other routes have been kept open from Yunnan to French Indo-China, the old Imperial Highway rebuilt across the deserts of Sinkiang to the Soviet border...
...their outside record of three victories against four defeats is none too impressive, it should be noted that they had to battle their way through a torrid schedule of five outside matches in nine days against the strongest teams in the East and the last time they lost they pressed North Carolina to the limit before succumbing...
...huge temporary shed of bamboo and matting at torrid Tripuri drove an ambulance one day last week. A patient was carried into the shed and put on a cot between two big ice tanks. Lying there, sipping cooling drinks and medicines, occasionally bidding two young nieces fan his brow, the patient tried to forget a temperature of over 100 as he presided over the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress...
...with beautiful shooting and defensive work, the Yardling hoopsters defeated the Yale Freshmen 51 to 41 in the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday evening. One of the closest in the season, it was either team's game until the fourth quarter with the Yardlings leading at the end of the torrid third period...
...mother, has kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned). So Big, for example, she wrote in a torrid Chicago hotel room, never having seen a farm. Now living in a fabulous soundproof Park Avenue penthouse (originally built for Ivar Kreuger, the late, burnt-out Match King), she is glad that in her personal life she has also been a bystander. She has never married. Sometimes, says Edna Ferber, under...