Word: deservedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theoretically Chang's evacuation left Peking to be occupied without a struggle by the Nationalist Army. But that army was in three sections, allied rather than subordinate under a nominal Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Chiang was obliged to leave his personal army in the field, at a considerable...
"We were called to our mark. We were set. The gun was fired. We were off together the first time. Slowly Abrahams pulled away, and he broke the tape well ahead. He deserved to win, because he was the best man that day. . . ."
If the sensitivity that has banished the letter from sweaters, that has almost succeeded in banishing the sweaters, that has made the striped tie victim of occasional snobbery, if this sentiment has played midwife to the birth of a new ostracism, then Harvard has once again gone too far. When...
"I shall never sing again in Viennese opera. . . . I shall sing again in Paris if they ask me. I was received there enthusiastically by the public, but I don't know why I deserved the insulting treat-ment accorded me by the Austrian Legation and Director Schneiderhahn of the...
Miss Ling Nyi Vee, Chinese student of Wesleyan College at Macon, Ga.. made a non-stop flight from Macon to Shanghai in 24 hours. Alone above the Pacific Ocean she had only crackers and pickles with which to fight hunger. She was forced to fly so high that her...