Word: setbacks
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...Yellow River front, their drive on Hankow halted, Japanese armies still waited for the flood waters of "China's Sorrow" to subside. South on the Yangtze River, the main naval drive upstream on Hankow received a temporary setback at Matang, where the Chinese had blocked the stream with a boom. Finally, aided by the rising river waters, a few vessels nosed across and at week's end had pushed their way to Pengtseh, some 175 miles from Hankow...
...received no reply. Lawyer Elton, independently seeking to reseat the Duke on the throne, bases his case on the claim that the 1936 Abdication Act, while passed by Parliament, is illegal because it was not a mandate from the people. Fortnight ago, however, his cause received its first legal setback. Founder Elton's statement of claim that the Act was "illegitimate" was refused a hearing on the grounds that it was not on the regular schedule of cases...
...Japanese, who had been pushing along the railroad toward Chengchow, hoping to make it a base for their southerly drive to Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital, the flood was a severe setback. Tokyo papers at once accused the devilish Chinese of having sprung the dikes as a strategic military move. "An atrocity," cried Damei, "by barbarian Chinese. . . . The Japanese are making frantic efforts to check the flow and to rescue the Chinese caught in the flood area, at the same time repulsing Chinese attacks...
When he took office, "Bible Bill" asked Ottawa for a loan of $18,000,000, received only $2,850,000. When he tried to put through a law muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
Throughout the game no more than one Crimson man reached first in a single inning as Devaney erased his previous 7-6 setback by the Varsity at Cambridge. Lupien's triple in the twelfth was the only extra base hit of the game...