Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sailors have long called St. Paul "the cursed island." As a barren rock in the antarctic fringe of the bleak South Indian Ocean, 2,000 miles from Africa, India and Australia, French-owned St. Paul is seldom free from either mist or mystery, and last week both fell thicker than ever...
Russia's Battle? Not long ago a delegation from bleak and once-unfriendly Tibet* tramped to the Chinese military headquarters in Szechwan Province, there presented the Generalissimo with 10,000 sheepskins contributed by Tibetan monks, officials and peasants as "an expression of unity against the Japanese invasion." Through the Soviet-dominated territories of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia, where before the war the Chinese Government had nothing but enemies, now come two of China's main supply lines...
Dumped one night last week into a big hole inside bleak Jilava Fortress, near Bucharest, were the bullet-ridden bodies of 14 leaders of the Iron Guard, Rumania's suppressed, German-financed party. No one else was present when soldiers shoveled the last spadeful of cold dirt over the corpses of the young fanatics who had banded together in a Jew-baiting, terrorist group to oust the Government and set up a Nazi State in Rumania...
What hundreds of Soviet soldiers, tanks and heavy guns were unable to do ten weeks ago-drive the Japanese off bleak & barren Changkufeng hill on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border-September's floods accomplished. Last week travelers from Manchukuo reported that Russian troops, after Japanese retired before the flood, planted their red flag atop the hill and began to pit it with fortifications...
There have been some cases of Monday pessimism on Soldiers Field of recent years, but only once after an opening game. Yesterday afternoon, however, from the H.A.A. on Quincy Street to the very northern extreme of the practice field, the atmosphere was slightly bleak...