Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth time, three minutes and 25 seconds later, its corkscrew tail straightened out rigid in death. After...
...French Maginot Line, but over a period of years the Chinese have built important numbers of cement pillbox forts in a sausage-shaped area. This is traversed by the curiously named Lung-hai Railway, so called because it starts from the sea at Haichow and penetrates far inland toward Lung mountain in Kansu, forming today the sole rail link down which Soviet munitions are brought to aid China. Chinese troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line, and Chinese Communist forces were operating in Hopeh last week with such success that at times the Japanese lost...
Last Chapter? In Spain this week the U. S. diplomatic mission at Barcelona was packing up to withdraw toward France. The main force of some 60,000 Spanish Rightists under General Juan Yague, advancing toward Lérida, "the Key to Barcelona," found themselves briefly balked at the Cinca River. The People's Army had blown up all bridges for 50 miles along the Cinca to cover their retreat. Wading chest deep through the icy waters, the 60,000 Rightists crossed at Fraga, which had just been reduced to shambles by 160 Rightist bombers. Pontoon bridges were then flung...
Games will be played on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, and will be counted toward physical education requirements starting Friday, April...
...President had all the power to carry out the proposed reforms, and didn't use it. As a matter of fact, the Mobilization Day Bill goes further toward dictatorship than anything I've seen, and doesn't fulfill its avowed purpose of "taking the profit out of war." There's where it might be justifiable to shout 'dictator...