Word: zone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 10% of the country's movable production going overseas. In imports it ranks second only to the United Kingdom. Without its own ships the U. S. might be left stranded, as it was during the War, when foreign bottoms virtually disappeared from trade routes outside the War Zone...
...becoming incredulous. In Tokyo the Ministers of the Army and Navy are not responsible to the Premier but only to the Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country zone outside Shanghai so sharply that it would be impossible for Chinese forces to continue to hold Chapei in the urban zone (see map, p. 19). Tazang was the town at which the Japanese decided to push big, after bombing and shelling it for nearly a month, and last week their...
...series started in 1882, and 16 games were played before Dartmouth was able to score a point. Then, in 1901, the first "Big Green" team ever to cross the Crimson goal line did so by means of a blocked punt which was recovered by Morse in the end zone...
Both of these minerals occur near the surface in what miners call the exidized zone...
...necessarily exposed railway lines, the arteries of her troops and supplies. The new Hankow-Canton railway was so heavily bombed that neutrals doubted if it was still functioning this week, agreed that the line from Nanking which starts from Pukow across the river and runs to the main war zone in North China was being bombed at intervals over its whole length...