Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is in circulation in Peking that the position was offered to General Hwang Fu, Doctors Koo, Chen Ting-Wang and Yen, who decided to settle their fate by a game of Mah Jongg. It was arranged that the lowest score should accept the vacant position. They " played all night " and Dr. Koo lost " by one bamboo...
...whatever the final fate of the disputed portraits, Sargent's position in the National Gallery is secure. The gallery hung-several years ago-his fine portrait of Lord Ribblesdale. Sargent, 'in his middle sixties, has become an "old master." Without dying, he has joined Reynolds, Romney, Raeburn as an " immortal British...
Wars start in two ways: a country may be attacked or may itself attack. In discussing the future fate of the United States it would perhaps be wise to scan what has happened in the past, and to ascertain whether we have been the victim or wars started by others or have indulged in those begun by ourselves...
...Elephant is losing caste. Once he lived in a palace, wore gold trappings, and had girls to dance before him while he ate the choicest fruits. Now he is housed in an ordinary stable and, like his darker brethren, must work in harness for his hay. Such is the fate of the pachyderm which legend calls the heavenly form of Gantama Buddha...
...tribunal which will now take the place of the Cheka is a criminal court, in which many Communist features are still retained. There will be two jurors who will sit beside the judge and the fate of the prisoners brought before them will be decided by a vote of these three...