Word: kong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking private instruction. They are: R. W. Ayer '28, Brutus Brooks ocC., W. N. Bump '28, M. N. Fairbank '28, R. E. Gregg '28, and F. P. Sprout '28. Ayer, Bump and Gregg expect to go to Squantum; Brooks and Fairbank will take instructions at Curtiss Field, Kong Island; and Sproul expects to fly from the East Boston Airport...
...these heirs to a glorious past and spirants to an even more glorious future greet each other from Hong Kong and Havana, from Beacon Hill and Devil's Gulch, what a dramatic moment demanding the imagination of a Hugo to appreciate! As East meets West and North meets South, is there no master's pen to do justice to the event? There...
...between the Kuo Mintang and Yimnanese factions (TIME, June 15) ended in a speedy victory for the radical Kuo Mintang (the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's party). Thereafter followed bloody executions of Yiinnanese soldiers who had surrendered unarmed. Most of the foreigners had been evacuated to Hong-Kong. Those that remained in Shamien, the foreign settlement, were unmolested, but could see the wholesale murder, arson and rape committed by the blood-thirsty Kuo Mintang. No doubt remained but that they were in the employ of the Bolsheviki. U. S. and British ships were fired on. Anarchy prevailed...
...spread to Changsha and Nanking, capitals of Hunan and Kiangsu. Sniping tactics were bgeun. Officials from Peking arrived, opened a conference with the Chinese and foreign authorities. Canton. The situation at Canton began with sympathy parades for the Shanghai strikers. Threats against the foreign population at Canton and Hong-Kong were heard. Foreign troops were landed for the protection of life and property. Strikes were declared, business halted. Suddenly, another situation was superimposed on the first. After the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen (TIME, Mar. 23), leader of the South China Party, his adherents split into two factions: a radical...
...left the village sorrowfully, went to Canton, studied at a British college, left, went to Hong-Kong, studied surgery, became a doctor, was probably the first yellow man to perform a scientific operation...