Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turncoats. Since success succeeds nowhere faster than in China, victorious Chang Kai-shek was kept busy receiving protestations of "loyalty" from the former subordinate generals of Wu Pei-fu. These gentry, stranded with their bands of mercenary soldiers, turned their coats with unction and alacrity. Among the first was General Yang Sen, until last week nominally subordinate to Wu Pei-fu, actually the petty despot of Wanhsien on the Yangtze, which leaped to international fame when Yang seized two British river steamers (TIME, Sept. 20) and was bombarded by British river warships for his pains...
...shek in such numbers last week that even his supremacy in Shanghai seemed threatened. The armies of Chang Kai-shek will assumedly make Shanghai their next objective; and among both foreigners and Chinese in the city there was last week the most intense excitement. The final seal of success was put upon Chang Kai-shek's conquest when the great Super- Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, telegraphed a proposal that the two Changs should divide China between themselves...
...Indians' showing at New Haven. Two years ago Dartmouth barely tied Yale, but a week later defeated Harvard. That year Dooley was largely blamed for the failure of the Dartmouth attack at the Bowl. But within seven days he was bailed as the hero of the Green's success in the Stadium...
...selling are seriously damaged. With radio, airships, and automobiles bringing the peoples of the world into closer and more intimate contact every day, the world is moving rapidly toward a universal language but, until all peoples speak and understand the same tongue, knowledge of languages is the essence of success in international trade...
...suceed in business in that polyglot section of the world around the northwest corner of old Germany, the merchant had to speak at least six languages. The Dutch rate high as linguists merely because, being surrounded by five different nations using different tongues, and depending upon them for commercial success, the Hollander is compelled to speak English. German, and French, and to understand Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians. The Swiss merchant must do business in French. English, German, and Italian and does. The Dutchman in Ceylon, Java, the islands of the South Seas, does not attempt to force the natives...