Word: fullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similar dispatches had previously trickled into similar oblivion: month ago, for instance, one described a guerrilla action near Great Wutai Shan, the sacred Buddhist mountain in Shansi-when Chinese caught an unsuspecting Japanese brigade and killed a full third of the force...
...come to the gates to whimper and beg for little comforts. Superstitions are epidemic. Nearly every dead Japanese soldier has on him a charm, worn in life to ward off death. Often a man draws about himself a magic circle (the round of his life is full; no escape) and puts a bullet in his head. Instead of cremating bodies to be returned home for proper Shinto burial, Army officers cut off heads, cremate them for home burial, and bury the bodies in China, or drop them in rivers or wells. All these things prey on the Japanese will...
...followed the forest across a savage, rocky plateau full of heather down into a long crooked valley...
...BERNARD'S BRETHREN-Holt ($3). † Sir Eyre Massey Shaw of the London Fire Brigade. Apparently an accident "deprived him of the full powers of his manhood...
...sperm-bearing pollen being carried to the silk by the wind. For inbreeding, the tassels and silk are protected by paper bags until maturity, and the plants are then self-pollinated by hand. These inbred strains become highly uniform. Finally, promising strains are crossed to combine advantages-long ears, full-kerneled ears, resistance to drought, heat, wind, insects. Since the characters of a hybrid are not always predictable from those of the parents, many experimental crosses must be made for one successful result...