Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city was occupied, as Tsinan's military police. Last week hundreds of Chinese soldiers, disguised as coolies or even dressed as market girls, filtered into Tsinan, with arms concealed beneath their clothing. There were whispered conferences with the Chinese battalion leaders and then, encouraged by reports of Chinese success in the Lunghai area, Tsinan's Chinese police revolted. Grabbing their pistols, the only arms allowed them by the Japanese, they barricaded themselves in the suburbs. Coolies and market girls whipped off their disguises, rushed to join them. Three Chinese guerrilla columns suddenly appeared outside and, at last reports...
Those of the 400,000,000 Chinese people who heard about it hailed with wild delight this magnificent success, their first major victory in ten months of war. Cracked China's famed "Christian General," General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The Japanese are soft-shelled turtles in a closed...
...Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, pleased with the Chinese success, encouraged by the continued inflow of Soviet tanks and warplanes, and gratified because his Kuomintang Party Congress concluded fortnight ago on a note of harmony with the Chinese Communists, was still cautious. "There is still a long way to go," admitted Chiang. "Let us not be proud or over-satisfied with preliminary success, or discouraged by temporary reverses! Let us fight with greater determination...
...friendship with Geddes did not end until 1932, when that great-bearded, great-craniumed and voluble Scot died in France with a knighthood fresh upon him. By that time Lewis Mumford had lived, worked, sketched and studied in London, Paris, Pittsburgh and New York. He had made a literary success with a biography of Herman Melville and had written the first meagre draft of what has since been expanded to Technics and Civilization and The Culture of Cities...
...when some men have won a mild success...