Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centuries. thus, China was never menaced by samurai aggression until the latter part of the nineteenth century. In order to put an end to the chronic invasions of the hostile islanders, as early as 1591, Admiral Yi Soon-sin invented iron-clad warships. With them he annihilated the Japanese wooden fleet. From then on, Korea was at peace until...
This week German civilians went to their cinemas and saw newsreels of winter on the Russian Front. They saw carloads of woolen socks and greatcoats rolling to the front through snow-covered countryside. They saw German sappers building wooden camps frankly labeled Winter Quarters, German tailors fitting fur jackets to tank crews, German kitchen police getting water by chopping holes in ice, German greaseballs sweeping snow off the wings of fighter planes...
...there was another dreadful hunger. This time over 20,000,000 peasants came to the verge of starvation. Again the U.S. was touched and helped hard. Correspondent Walter Duranty wrote: "Imagine yourself standing at the corner of a dusty street. . . . The houses are mostly low wooden structures with dirty windowpanes or gaping holes like bleared and sightless eyes. . . . Opposite there is a handsome dwelling, formerly the home of a rich merchant. A broad garden is dotted with dun-colored bundles, motionless. . . . They are children...
...layman observers next crowded up into the wooden dome which houses the 96-year-old refracting telescope, which, in its day, was the largest in the world. Climbing up into a plush-covered seat beside the graduate observerer, the visitors at first caught a glimpse of the craters of the moon, but only a small portion of the total surface could be seen at a time...
Odessa, Pearl of the Black Sea, historic Russian seaport and No. 3 industrial center in the Ukraine, was unimpressed. It was bombarded by the French after the Bolshevist Revolution of 1917. The city was built almost entirely of stone; during the famine of 1921-23 the inhabitants razed wooden buildings for fuel. Odessa's citizens tore up the ultimatum, settled down for a siege...