Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morsels of flies and slugs and it gradually absorbs them as its means of sustenance. The latter is more subtle and lazy--it makes no motions. Insects are lured into its pitcher-like growths and are so tangled and dazed by the intricacies within that they never return to daylight. Then there is the strange White Galla plant which spurts water from the tips of its leaves under a bright light...
...last been bombed in the seventh month of the war. Chinese did not, however, give the credit to Mme Chiang Kaishek. They remembered last week that all during the Japanese siege of Shanghai, defending Chinese troops complained that her planes rarely ventured to bomb the Japanese in daylight, bombed them only ineffectively at night, failed to sink or score a direct hit on the Japanese flagship Idzumo which lay anchored a fair target in the Whangpoo, week after week...
...front-line troops. . . . Demoralization had resulted from lack of attention for the Chinese wounded. . . . Then, too, might be added the strong resentment of the Chinese front-line troops at the fact that while they are under constant aerial bombings from Japanese bombers no Chinese bombers have appeared during daylight hours, although every Chinese soldier had been given to understand that Chiang Kai-shek's chief threat to Japan consisted in his air force. . . . What now? Japan has succeeded in plunging China into chaos which will take several years, perhaps decades, to straighten out. . . . With China's near collapse...
...diplomatic crisis increasingly grave was that Japan's running fire of apologies were accompanied by a running fire of reports from survivors of the Panay. These made it apparent that not only had the Panay been boarded and identified by the Japanese, but bombed in broad daylight, machine-gunned by four planes, after the bombing, and finally machine-gunned by two Japanese motor boats as she was sinking...
Slowly making her way through dark, unfamiliar waters last fortnight, the Dollar Line's crack 21,936-ton President Hoover ran hard aground on a reef 18 miles off Formosa's east coast, 450 miles north of Manila. There was a heavy swell on, and by daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited...