Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing national consciousness of the South, its ideal of a sovereign China free from foreign influence is attributed the impetus that drives its forces steadily toward Pekin. And in the dispute with dominant Japan, the United States is suggested, as a probable mediator. Because of important American business interests a natural bias will suggest a decision favorable to imperialistic enterprise and prejudicial to the anti-foreign Chinese Nation. Such interference with an independent movement is presently pragmatical, but it forestalls the day when all peoples must be autonomous, and it suggests too much another Nicaragua...
...recent flight lies in the fact that he has demonstrated the feasibility of transpolar flights. Meteorologists have long recorded the comparative absence of fogs and storms in the Arctic, and it is my firm conviction that the air routes of the future between such points as New York and Pekin, or Seattle and London, will be mapped over the Arctic...
Stefansson explained that polar routes are safer than those, which follow the longer courses further south, as the sea hops are short and covered with ice much of the year. Moreover, the polar route from New York to Pekin, for example, saves 1000 miles of flying distance...
...Stuart came to Cambridge for a conference with President Lowell on the formation of an Institute of Chinese Relations, and organization which would have as its purpose a study of Chinese problems by graduate students in Cambridge and Pekin...
...Leighton Stuart, President of Yenching University, near Pekin, China, will be the speaker at the luncheon of the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock today. The general topic of his speech will be "China...