Word: frontal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Ma, despite his frontal resistance and spirited efforts to turn the Japanese right flank, was forced slowly back upon Tsitsihar. Miles behind the Japanese lines during the week and safe from Chinese capture was the famed Nonni River Bridge, almost captured by General Ma in his first assaults. Under grim Japanese guard and directed by Japanese engineers, docile Chinese coolies completed repairs to the dynamited bridge, made possible the further advance of chuffing Japanese armored trains...
...Doumers did not actually move in until the Elysée had been furiously swept, scrubbed, dusted for two days. After this preliminary assault. General Housekeeper Mine Doumer will lead a frontal attack on the old palace by painters, paperers. floor-waxers, basement-scrubbers, waterspout fixers...
Pared Brain. Dr. Walter Edward Dandy (Johns Hopkins) announced that he had found that two-thirds of a man's brain could be pared away without damaging intellectual powers. He reported cases where he had removed both frontal lobes in removing a tumor. Said he: '"To retain unimpaired mental powers a human needs only his midbrain and his left hemisphere...