Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...field. The Japanese drastically shortened lines and weakened garrisons in China, at the cost of much face and the risk of future distress. In the extreme southwest, they burned and evacuated Nanning. and. fighting off harassing Chinese troops, retired from Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces to Hainan Island, springboard for projected drives westward to the rest of Indo-China, southward at Dutch islands, eastward at Hong Kong. The Chinese claimed that in the eleven months since the Japanese took Nanning, they had lost 74,000 men by sickness and siege. The Japanese claimed that the penetration of nearby Indo-China made...
This week, in Manhattan's barnlike Grand Central Palace, U. S. motormakers stage their 41 st National Automobile Show. An American institution, the Show is the springboard of the new selling season. In good years and bad, automen bubble with hope at show time. This year optimism spouts like a geyser. Thanks to defense spending, they expect 1941 sales to be the highest since 1937's 5,016,437 cars, No. 2 automobile year...
Herr Hitler also still got some 390,000 tons of Dutch oil, 3.000 tons of tin, large stocks of vegetable oils, whale oil, condensed milk. He appointed his Austrian yes man, Arthur Seyss Inquart, to govern the new prize. He gloated over the new springboard he had for a feat never accomplished, even by Napoleon, since William the Conqueror performed it in 1066: the invasion of Great Britain...
...press Belgium to take Germany's side against the Allies, serve as a springboard for German attack upon Britain and France, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Fiihrer Hitler had used threats and a Fifth Column. Neither worked. One of the first things that happened last Friday was the arrest of Rexist Leader Leon Degrelle, would-be Nazi Gauleiter of Belgium, and 2,000 of his followers. Force was the Nazis' last resort, and force was met with as effective force as a country of 8,300,000 can bring against one of 100,000,000. For in Leopold...
...Cook and Don Munding, Yale's brilliant Sophomore divers, ought to sweep first and second against Harvard's George Dana and Chet Sagenkahan, although Dana may conceivably take a second if one of the Elis has an off-day. Both Crimson divers are ending their springboard careers this evening...