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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China's armies has been the collision of a resistible force with a movable object. The battlefronts have been extremely elastic. Last week a Chinese military spokesman coined a new phrase for China's war plan: "rubber-band tactics"-let the Japanese stretch their various lines of advance until they are either snapped back or bound around. Last week the bands were being stretched and relaxed at the following points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Rubber-Band Tactics | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...course, which only three Yale Law students are taking this year, involves about seven months of study at Harvard School of Business Administration, in which time various Business courses important to Law students are theoretically taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Law-Harvard Business Course to Be Dropped; Started Three Years Ago | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Houses may turn in their answered blanks to representatives of the CRIMSON who will be at the entrances of the various House dining halls today at lunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring School Poll | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...coming weeks look very strong from the swing angle with Chick Webb now in residence at the Southland, Earl Hines due in there soon, Charley Barnet at the Raymor, various name bands in and out of Totem Pole and the Roseland State, and the Freshman Smoker's terrific array of talent Monday night...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

...hesitated, a little taken aback. The place where he found himself was, to say the least, surrealistic. In front of him was the crude semblance of an early nineteenth century drawing room with men and women strewn about in various histrionic positions. A little man with flowing red hair was wandering about among them, muttering to himself and glaring at the Vag. Yet when he looked behind him, the Vag knew indubitably that he was at the bottom of a swimming pool, sans water, and above him were tier upon tier of weird looking people, perched on diving boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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