Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that, $12,000,000 went as endowment for the New China Medical Board. To the China Medical Board also went the land, buildings and equipment of the Rockefeller-created Peking Union Medical College, one of China's main medical centres. To make the Chinese believe that the Rockefellers meant the China Medical Board to be nationalistic, Chinese have been placed in control of its board of trustees, which is to perpetuate itself...
...Soong Dynasty" was a frightful term to use to the President of China's earnest young Republic. By it Marshal Feng meant the governing group which has ruled the Nationalist Party for so long; a group headed by Finance Minister T. V. Soong, President Chiang Kai-Shek, Minister of Commerce H. H. Kung. The last two are both married to sisters of Finance Minister Soong. Potent Mme. Sun Yat-Sen. Dr. Sun's widow, is another Soong...
Elections to the Senior Societies at one time meant "recognition" of leadership and distinguished performance in the undergraduate world, plus character, and for that reason were "honors" so recognized by the Campus at large. But a change has come. The great size of the Classes since the War (running to over 500 men), the rise of the Junior Fraternities as social clubs and the mixing of all Classes in class-room work, have been subtly and steadily changing all this, so that the character of the Senior-Society elections--and hence their importance on the Campus--within the last...
...reputation, but things like that aren't done. However, as Sargent was unable to use a true fresco technique, regardless of what Mr. Potter may do, the pictures will soon decompose. Meanwhile they harmonize quite admirably with the vulgarity of the whole building. Perhaps this is what Mr. Potter meant when he said, "They have their place." John Walker...
...true rules of success in life. All the old maxims about working and waiting, study and industry, are to be thrown aside in favor of push, impudence, tuft-hunting, insolence and greed. And when challenged later about the soundness of this advice, Professor Rogers declared that he meant every bit of it and had not a word to retract. That would seem to make his circle of sarcasm completely rounded...