Word: barrenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden era of 1926-29 the first two years saw Crimson defeats 12 to 7 and 14 to 0. Finally in 1928 after five barren years Harvard came into its own, breaking the drought by laterals executed by the Dave Guarnaccia-Art French combine. The year of the Depression saw Albie Booth's strip tease as the "mighty mite" stormed onto the field unsuccessfully to attempt a field goal. Harvard won 10 to 6. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Tickner made it three straight for the Crimson in 1930 with a 13 to 0 victory...
...face for the Japanese. A spokesman in Tokyo admitted that the fighting against Russia on the Mongolian border, terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to the Japanese had engaged them on the barren Holumbar Plain, devoid of cover of any kind, and whipped them. Admitted casualties: 18,000 killed, wounded, sick...
...readers accompany young Tom through the night when he sees a rape and a lynching, through barren Mississippi and Louisiana into Texas, they may feel that if The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled could be accepted as truth in Oklahoma, Night of the Poor cannot be so accepted this side of Teheran. The language of Prokosch's Americans is a salty, sometimes melodious mimicry, but it rings false too often in such mixtures as "One can't be sure of nothin'. . . ." He speaks of "oil wells burning through the moth-hung night" in Texas, when...
...China was given to one of the Army's best strategists, Toshizo Nishio. Recently resigned War Minister Seishiro Itagaki was made Lieut. General Nishio's Chief of Staff. Command of the Kwantung Army, the able if imaginative force which since May 11 had been making the barren plains of Manchukuo a bramble of practically uncountable wrecked Russian planes, was given to one of the Army's best diplomats, Lieut. General Yoshijiro Umezu, already Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo. It looked (but no one dared say so, since Japanese are as unpredictable as shooting stars) as if Japan wanted...
...prices for their milk, dealers were squeezed between production prices and the unwillingness of the public to pay more than 13-14? a quart. When production prices were down (due either to competition between the States or general overproduction) dealers and handlers were in clover while farmers pastured in barren fields...