Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...northern French coal miners and operators were deadlocked in conference at St. Etienne last week, when M. Tardieu communicated to them his resolve not to tolerate a strike. The operators, he declared, were right when they proposed to cut the price of coal to meet foreign competition† but were wrong in attempting to cut the men's wages low enough to leave the operators' profits unimpaired by the new low price of coal. Similarly, rapped M. Tardieu, the men were wrong in demanding that their wages remain the same while the price of coal...
Life came to Chiang Kai-shek 39 years ago in a tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
...Williams met his death was told by an eyewitness. Dr. A. J. Bowen, Chancellor of Nanking University. He said: "I was crossing the campus with our university librarian when we noticed what we thought to be Northern [Shantungese] troops looting and burning the home of Dr. Daniels, also a faculty member...
Japanese census takers, nosing around in the northern mountains of their country, discovered a village, unmentioned by maps, containing 152 inhabitants, none of whom had ever heard of the outside world. They wore clothes of a style fashionable in Japan centuries ago. Their teeth were blackened for beauty; they ate only fruit and vegetables. Archaeologists calculated that they must be descendants of a clan called Heike which was driven into the mountains in the 11th Century by Genji, amorous but warlike royal bastard, whose biography* has lately been appearing in English, translated by scholarly Arthur Waley...
...Which is Northern Cambridge's boast...