Word: li
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family sends him to the temple, the traditional cure-all for human ills. Recovered, Ko-sen is now a temple-boy, belonging to the pot-bellied gilt gods. Though given to the gods, he feels no dedication in himself, contrives after a time to run away with Fah-li, another temple boy. In the first town they come to they hear a revolutionary orator recruiting volunteers. Ko-sen is much impressed by the new ideas of liberation from traditional religion, from foreign influence. Fah-li takes all this oratory with a grain of salt, but his love...
...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...
Sirs: Under the depressing caption "Cruises Cancelled" in TIME, Jan. 11, you mention among other items of travel news that Cie Internationale des Wagons Li ts et des Grands Express Européens abandoned the Manhattan office (No. 701 Filth Avenue). This statement, technically correct, is nevertheless misleading. It would have been better to explain that the building was abandoned, and not the office. This office staff, furniture, etc., was moved from its one-story premises at No. 701 Fifth Avenue to the recently enlarged Thos. Cook & Son offices at No. 587 Fifth Avenue, comprising six working floors. (Thos. Cook...
...Ichiki. Minister of the Imperial Household. The bomb was strangely ineffective. One horse was scratched by a fragment, the carriage was uninjured. Emperor Hirohito popped his head out of his carriage in time to see little Japanese policemen swarming angrily over the bomb thrower, a tall angular Korean named Li...
...half century and more the great Ysaÿe had no time for the stage. He was busy being a master violinist, busy at symphonic conducting, busy at composing for violin or orchestra. But last week he would have given a great deal to have gone back to Liége for the premiére of a one-act opera called Peter the Miner. He had written it himself but he was too sick to travel from Brussels to see it played. Seventy-two, diabetic, one leg amputated, he had to listen to his opera over the radio...