Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng, "War lord of Shanghai," appeared to have gone to Wu's aid too late (TIME, Sept. 20) and was experiencing difficulty last week in holding against the Communists one of his military strongholds, Nanchang, only 400 miles from Shanghai...
...heavyweight champion of the world, he was making a brief martial* address into the microphone, while cameras snapped. It was several minutes before the photographers remembered that there had been another man in the ring. They looked over their shoulders at a wet corner, but Dempsey had gone...
...When last spring, it was announced that chiefly juniors would handle the advisory work, coming seniors regarded the matter quite with approval, and a new era for the system appeared in the greater freedom of the lower classmen. The hope then raised, the present report now substantiates. Advisers have gone to their advisees with more completeness than in other years, have held office hours at the freshman hails themselves...
Then, suddenly, nine hours had passed like a distorted dream, and the wind-god raged moaning up the northeast coast toward Pensacola. No more would sport coats and plumed hats" stroll at Hialea Race track. It was gone. No more would dandies strut and women preen in Carl Fisher's fashionable Flamingo Hotel. It was wrecked. Five hundred bodies soaked in the streets, some wretchedly askew under logs, others stretched out peacefully by the Chamber of Commerce. Where had been one mammoth mansion sat a lone bathtub. And ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses...
Judge E. H. Gary: "Every year when my birthday comes round the newspapers speak darkly of a pitcher that has gone too often to the well. Last week I was 80. As usual, I failed to announce my retirement as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U. S. Steel Corp. I go to the office every day and stay as long as anyone. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, cheered me up by a bit of smart rhetoric. 'Gladstone,' he said, 'ran the British Parliament when he was past 80; Von Moltke ran the German army when...