Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communiqués admitted Japanese advances by mobile columns from the South. At week's end the Japanese claimed that one column had cut the railroad at Tangshan, 50 miles west of Suchow. There the Japanese Southern Army hoped to meet the Japanese Northern Army and close the western end of the Lunghai corridor...
...Japanese claimed that the successful closing of the Lunghai corridor's western end would mean that an army of at least 400,000 of Chiang Kai-shek's best soldiers would be bottled up in a narrowing pocket around Suchow, with little chance of escape, with only the alternatives of surrender or annihilation. Since this corridor is at least 100 miles long and never narrower than 45 miles, the Japanese claim was considered optimistic. The effective closing of the long western end of the Lunghai corridor seemed to military experts to be feasible only if Japan sent many...
...September 1935 that United's Patterson went to competitors with his appeal: "United we fly, divided we los.e money." Six months later United, Transcontinental & Western Air, American, Eastern and Pan American signed a contract, crux of which was that for 18 months none of them would invest in any four-motored air transport between the gross weights of 43,500 lb. and 68,500 lb., other than DC-4. These lines advanced Douglas comparatively little for the experiment. Nine-tenths of the expenses, which DC-4 will have to pay back by selling itself,* have come...
...many witches. Besides the timeless family jealousies and bickerings that make a child feel insecure, the accelerating tempo of modern life, the danger and excitement that fill even the comic strips, the rootlessness of city dwellers and competition in all things make "anxiety . . . the most prominent mental characteristic" of western civilization. Dr. Prescott found that by & large even the schools create tensions in children, by regimentation, by making them read before they are ready to learn to read, by giving them too many doses of failure...
...side of a hill in the south-western part of this region lies a settlement of twelve small houses dominated by a large building. The country is usually quiet on warm Spring evenings, but now an atmosphere of gayety pervades the place. Girls wearing beautiful dresses and boys trailing them are running in the direction of the parent building where a dance is progressing...