Word: ko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy Wong introduced the agent to his friend Ko Wing Chuck, treasurer of the Hip Sing Tong. The agent bought a generous supply of opium and went to Chicago. Here the members of the Hip Sing Tong were so entranced by his personality and appetite for opium that, when he capped his friendly gestures by presenting them with a wad of tickets to the Braddock v. Louis prizefight, he was rewarded by being initiated into the Chicago branch of the Tong. He brought along a fellow agent, had him initiated also. By this time, the agent was also expressing...
Japan's present system of peerage, of which the new Premier is a top-ranking member, numbers about 1,000, was established in 1884 as a subtle method of breaking the power of the feudal Samurai. Titles are ki (prince), ko (marquis), haku (count), shi (viscount), dan (baron). All are hereditary titles, all except the first can be conferred on commoners. There is also the equivalent of British knighthood in the Ikai or Kurai. Only in classical poetry or Gilbert & Sullivan is the Emperor called Mikado, is generally called Tenshi (Son of Heaven) or Tenno (Heavenly King...
...Chinese ear question was put to the Customs Bureau by Eli Lilly & Co., which stated that it had arranged to buy in China three pairs of ears needed in its Indianapolis laboratories in connection with some experiments in plastic surgery by Shanghai-born Dr. Ko Kuei Chen, Lilly's famed director of pharmacological research. When newshawks sought out Lilly's Dr. Chen, all he would say was that he was working on a hunch "which may or may not prove successful...
Fast and furious was the fracas between Tech's mustachioed Menendez and Ben Wood in the 175 pound class. A hard overhand right smash gave Wood a KO in the first stanza, putting the score at three and one half...
...Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle, address the 56th annual General Conference for Christian Workers at East Northfield, Mass. To his 4,000 listeners in the largest of the gatherings of ministers, students and missionaries which every summer brings to East Northfield, Dr. Jefferson's words almost seemed designated ko echo a Northfieldite who did do mighty work: Dwight Lyman Moody, doughty founder of the General Conference...