Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists' predictions were only a few hours old when they were horribly fulfilled. New shocks, no less terrifying because expected, leveled 25 villages clustered around Amasya, and struck for the first time in western Turkey, near Smyrna. All told, last week's quake was Turkey's worst...
...last week the news out of Tokyo was hot, and the censors, who had meantime permitted him to do his own telephoning once more, caught up with Wilfrid Fleisher in the middle of a revealing sentence...
About all worried "Dev" could do was call the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) to meet this week and give the police wider powers to arrest and detain suspects. The latest outburst of I. R. A. terror ism dates from Dec. 14, when two young Irishmen were sentenced to death in England at the Birmingham Assizes, for planting bombs at Coventry...
...seen everywhere, although they keep to themselves socially. The "representative" of the Russian Ambassador to China meets there with the Chinese Foreign Office's special delegate to go over details of the munitions trade. Slowly the Japanese have also waked up to the importance of Lanchow. Last week they decided to do something about it. For three days Japanese aviators bombed the city, sending over as many as 101 airplanes in one raid. The Japanese claimed to have destroyed the big Lanchow airdrome, and with it many Chinese planes. Chinese retorted that the Japanese aviators, as usual, had singled...
...Last week the Finns gave the world a good example of sisu by carrying the war into Russian territory on one front while on another they withstood merciless attacks by a reinforced Russian Army. In the wilderness that forms most of the Russo-Finnish frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Ocean, the Finns definitely gained the upper hand...