Word: terminus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria, was advancing into Hunan province on two fronts, apparently driving for the Nationalist strongpoint at Changsha. Four of Lin's divisions captured the Yangtze port of Ichang, 200 miles north of Changsha. In Shensi province, the Nationalist defenders abandoned Paochi, the western terminus of the Lunghai railroad, but counterattacked east and west of the town. Another big battle was shaping up in western Kiangsi province, directly above Canton...
...Connecticut finishes patching up its highway system from New Haven to the Massachusett's border, there remains only one big missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization...
Like most varsity teams, the lacrosse squad in going south on a tour this vacation, but unlike the others, it is not going to the South. Baltimore is the southern limit of the tour and Hoboken, N.J. is the northern terminus...
...place was Valentia, Ireland, European terminus of Cyrus Fields' newly laid transatlantic cable. A young telegrapher named Joseph May heard an unfamiliar hum on his code receiver. He stumbled on the cause: a shaft of sunlight, streaming through the window, fell on an electrical resister and jammed his code receiver. When May passed his hand between the light and the resister, the hum stopped. But why? May decided, rightly and brightly, that the resister (or the selenium that coated it) must have what are now called photoelectric properties; i.e., that it could convert light values into electric values...
...post game custom of dismembering the goal-posts was noted to have sadly deteriorated. Saturday the Rutgerites rushed from their allotted seats and proceeded to tear down the Scarlet (defended at the terminus of hostilities) cross bar and supports, while Crimson fans implemented by high-octane fuel, successfully defended their own (Harvard's) device for place kicking...