Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subordinate General Li Fu-ying, Commander of the 61st Chinese National Division, for abandoning Tatungfu to the Japanese without a fight after being ordered to hold it at all costs. Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland winter has already come, but Mongolian troops allied with the Japanese last week spurred their shaggy little ponies over hard-crusted snow to engage Chinese defenders and press them back in indecisive skirmish warfare...
...drainage ditches were being dug on trench lines and supplies of food and clothing were being rushed into the city. To the east hundreds of workmen were driving spikes and laying rails for two new sections of track to bring Madrid into direct rail connection with Valencia again, for winter was coming on, and in the high altitude of the Spanish plateau there were not more than six or seven weeks of possible fighting weather left before operations must cease for the long winter's siege. Since the Rightists cut the direct rail route from Valencia just...
...south of Spain the same desire to beat the winter in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada put none other than bombastic Rightist "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano off the air last week and into action for the first time in months. Neutral observers hailed this as prelude to a long delayed advance along the seacoast toward Almeria...
...paintings by 26-year-old John McCrady of New Orleans, his first one-man show in Manhattan. Born and bred in the South, John McCrady came north when he won one of the ten national scholarships to Manhattan's Art Students' League in 1933. The unusually cold winter depressed him. He quit going to classes, stayed in his room hugging the radiator and telling himself he was no good until one day he began to paint down home scenes out of his imagination. Since that year he has stayed in Mississippi and Louisiana and painted what he knows...
...addition to the compulsory examinations for the Yardlings and other new students, a total around 1000, all athletes must be given the once over. To date, football, soccer, and cross country have sent up squads. About the time that the voluntary tests are finished, the winter sports will start sending in their...