Word: shen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perennially mutinous crews of those two flighty will-o'-the-wisps of the Chinese Navy, the protected cruisers Hai Shen and Hai Chi, last week got the scare of their lives...
...newshawks: "I intend to take my responsibilities as Queen seriously. My two sons are excited at the idea that they are now Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have...
...summary: HARVARD '37 DARTMOUTH '37 Stephenson, r.f. r.f., Ratajezak, Ross Moser, l.f. l.f., Conti, Johnston Gray, c. c., Shen, Parenteau Field, Witherspoon, r.g. r.g., Roper Mason, l.g. l.g., Whittaker, Parachini...
...distinction of being the first Chinese war boat ever to visit the West when she steamed as near as possible to the Coronation of King George V, discharged a cargo of Chinese emissaries in gorgeous silken robes. Built in 1897 the Hai Chi and the equally venerable Hai Shen ("Pearl of the Sea") were still listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron. When some weeks ago their commanders, quarreled with sedentary Admiral Shen Hung-lieh, Mayor of Tsingtao, he could do nothing to prevent their steaming out on the high seas of barter with...
...could get nowhere. It was forced to beg Chiang Kai-shek to return. That he did last week as acknowledged head of the Chinese Army. Next move was the resignation of Sun Fo. He took with him Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, received promises of support from General Shen Ming-shu, commander of the troops stationed in Shanghai. Sneered Chen: "The conference at Nanking reminds one of a people facing conquest. Chiang Kai-shek is ready to tell Japan to go as far as she likes." But General Chiang, with his Cantonese enemies out of the way, once more...