Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange coincidence that happens perhaps once in a generation. Seabiscuit, whose scratching canceled the famed Memorial Day $100,000 match race with War Admiral, was withdrawn a half hour before post time because of a swollen tendon, and Dauber, who had been so excited the day he arrived in Hollywood that he jumped out of his van while riding from the rail-road station, bruised a leg and broke a tooth, was also scratched a half hour before post time because of a bowed tendon...
...boundary of the internal separation of the German people," announced Göring's newssheet and claimed Switzerland's 3,000,000 Germans as "exiled citizens of the German Reich." Official Swiss protests registered in Berlin brought a semiofficial promise that the map would be withdrawn from educational circulation...
...After the counting, calculated to take 30 days, a ''good faith" withdrawal of 10,000 men would be made from the side found weaker in volunteers and a proportionate number would be withdrawn from the opposing side. (Estimated number of foreign fighters in Spain: with Franco, 40,000 Italians, 10,000 Germans; with the Leftists...
...sheet of the 66-page British plan, delegates from eight of the nations chimed "agreed, agreed" on virtually every point. Sole "No" thundered from Soviet Representative S. B. Kagan. "These new proposals," he scorned, "are only a feeble palliative. Counting of volunteers is no guarantee that they will be withdrawn...
Japan's military spokesmen in Shanghai declared that 250,000 confused, ill-armed, uncommanded-troops were hopelessly trapped in the Suchow area. At Hankow, China's temporary capital, Chinese commanders were more optimistic, said their best troops had withdrawn, claimed recapture of two towns, announced that they were engaged upon a little encircling themselves. The entire length of the 630-mile Tientsin-Pukow Railway is now nominally under Japanese control, although the Japanese will have to operate it against ceaseless Chinese guerilla attacks. For Japan's political administrators in China the victory means that Chinese puppets...