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Word: austerest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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Correspondents who sought out the new President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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