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Word: bobtail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accurate description of most of China's 1,800,000 rag tag & bobtail soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: New Policy? | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Mongolia and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan "The Model Governor" are doughty battlers whose names are Chinese household words. If they joined President Chiang, and they have joined him before (TIME, Dec. 24,1928), China could oppose Japan with perhaps 200,000 trained and equipped soldiers, plus a rag-tag & bobtail of 1,600,000 ineffective Chinese mercenaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Boycott, Bloodshed & Puppetry | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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