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...cause of President Chiang Kaishek. Astute, he has just built at Nanking a $240,000 ''Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Low Have You Sunk | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Third Freshman Crew Stroke, R. C. L. Timpson '31; 7, Brewster Righter '31; 6, W. M. Hawkins '31; 5, B. E. Rogers '31; 4, A. S. Pigeon '31; 3, W. N. Francis '31; 2, Z. B. Adams '31; mow, H. W. Williams '31; cox., A. M. Chase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE CORNERED CREW RACE ON CHARLES RIVER | 5/11/1928 | See Source »

...quit. These years of work, these endless efforts, promises, pledges, payments, worries, what not-all had been endured. It was ridiculous to suppose that he would quit. He had only to hang on. Across the whole country he had cut a wide swath of victory. In time, he would mow the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debacle | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...where they had fallen, with the result that the Americans take few prisoners now. The Boches tried to fool our boys with their comrade surrender. The trick is for some of them to go ahead holding up their hands. These "Kamerads" protect the machine gun men who in turn mow down our boys. They did this just once, and if there was ever real hate, our men have it. We all have it, and I hope that we shall never lose it until the war is over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: START OF JULY ALLIED DRIVE DESCRIBED BY LETTERS FROM AMBULANCE CAPTAIN AND INFANTRY LIEUTENANT | 9/27/1918 | See Source »

...mow them now bicycle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CYCLE AND EPICYCLE." | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

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