Word: senning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nationalist Party tinkered with China's organic law in such a way as to reduce the powers of the President and make that office resemble the Presidency of France. Into this post of honor, suddenly shorn of much of its power, was popped the venerable Lin Sen, born at Foochow, aged 67, prominent in China's revolutionary struggles and a onetime resident of California. Premier Sun, who thus unexpectedly emerged as the directive head of a new kind of Chinese Cabinet, was expected to have as his Minister of Foreign Affairs famed Eugene Chen, a Cantonese leader close...
...last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives in retirement, generally plays...
...last week the new laws had made little mention of divorce. Formerly husbands could declare themselves divorced, as did famed Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, and marry again without much trouble; dissatisfied wives had to bear their lot. The December enactments of the Yueh Fa gave wives the right to instigate proceedings, but did not specify the proceedings. Last week Dr. Wang's theories on divorce became Chinese statutes...
...Nakamura of the Kyoto observatory staff, when his agitation subsided, was able to trace a gross error. A reporter had misread the Japanese picture-word which described the new heavenly body. The symbol for ten, or ju, is approximately that of the mathematical plus sign (+); for 1,000 or sen, approximately that of the plus-or-minus sign (±). The careless reporter had added the upper cross bar. The new "planet" is a planetoid, about 110 not 11,000 miles in diameter. It lies between Mars and Jupiter in the general orbit of the thousand-odd other planetoids (TIME, March...
Inside Russia her rubles are legally worth 51? each. By special treaty Soviet rubles bid at Japanese fish auctions are legally worth 32.5 sen (16?). These facts are plain. But recently at Irkutsk roving Correspondent Henry Wales of the Chicago Tribune stumbled upon a ruble puzzle...