Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Shansi has long since federated with the Nanking Nationalist Government, Marshal Yen has delayed coming to Nanking, giving a typically modern alibi-"appendicitis" (TIME...
...home wears the flowered silken kimonos of Japan's ancient mode, and that her hair is often coiled intricately in fashions ordained by a remote Japanese coiffeur. Certain insufficiently informed persons deduced there from that Mme. Debuchi was an old school Japanese woman, that she opposed the modern trend of her countrywomen toward emancipation...
Potent denial of such deductions came (Continued on p. 19) (Continued from p. 75) last week from Mme. Debuchi who showed her complete awareness of modern Japan by speaking to correspondents thus...
...Chinese Turkestan, now inhabited by a Turkish population of Mohammedans, was untill the end of the first millennium A. D. the area of a Buddhist culture, developed by a population speaking Indo-European languages, that is to say, languages of the same stock as almost all the languages of modern Europe. These languages. Tokhanian. Eastern Iranian. Togdian, have not only disappeared many centuries ago, but, with the exception of Togdian, we had not even an intimation that they had ever existed, and all our conceptions of Aslatic history have been greatly changed by the fact that languages akin to ours...
...scattered, and the memory of the hoard died out. It was rediscovered by chance in 1900, but luck had it that in the course of the next few years no Chinese scholar happened to pass through Tun-Huang, and thus the largest collection of ancient manuscripts found in modern times came to the hands of Sir Aurel Stein and myself. When I reached Peking, I gave notice to the Chinese authorities of what I had left on the spot. A mission was sent and brought of Peking the rest of the manuscripts; a list of these was then published...