Word: lin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact, Professor Rolvaag did attempt a translation of his book and found it rather difficult to put the strength of it out in English. By chance, Mr. Lin coln Colcord of Minneapolis heard of this work. Also, Mr. Colcord did not know Professor Rolvaag but he went to Northfield and suggested to Rolvaag that they get together on this translation. Colcord does not know a word of Norwegian but he and Rolvaag worked a year and a half, Rolvaag reading his manuscripts and trans lating sentence by sentence, Colcord putting it into the English language with the result...
...quite very well then, Mr. Senator," said Chang Tso-lin, indifferently. "If that is the way you Westerners feel about women, Mme. Borodin shall not be shot...
Despatches told last week a belated inside story of how U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham interceded recently at Peking with the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin to save the life of the notorious Mme. Michael Borodin, whom Chang had taken prisoner (TIME, March...
Reputedly Senator Bingham, six feet tall and harsh of voice, told the small and slim but ruthless Chang Tso-lin that if he ordered the execution of Mme. Borodin public opinion in the U. S. would consider the War Lord a mere barbarian...
Last week Chang Tso-lin adopted an attitude of even greater indifference toward chunky, placid, middle-aged Mme. Borodin. She was released from jail under an amnesty, and at once hastened to Tientsin, preparing to embark there for Vladivostok...