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Word: suis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small calibre Japanese guns began to pepper the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee, the British river steamers Sui-Wo and Butterfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: A Great Mistake | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...observers credited China with definite air superiority, and General Mao Peng-tsou, field commander of the air force, gave to the world the names of China's first air heroes: Lieutenant Loi Chong, 23, credited with shooting down four Japanese light bombers in one morning; Lieutenant Wong Sun-sui, age unknown, credited with shooting down two twin-motored bombers near Nanking. Both men were trained in the U. S., used U. S.-built planes. Said Lieutenant Wong: ''American-made pursuit planes can easily outrun Japanese bombers. Shooting them down is comparatively easy because Japanese pilots seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Editor Tu produced the alibi that he was not in Shanghai when New Life prepared its gossip about Emperors and had not authorized the piece. Associate Editor Yih Sui, presumably responsible, was shown to have escaped to a place unknown. Thereupon, as a trim Japanese officer watched grimly in the courtroom, Editor Tu received the maximum sentence of 14 months in jail at hard labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: He's the Top! | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Peiping, and popped him on the throne in the middle of a July night. With Japanese money and the first airplanes used in a Chinese war, ousted Premier Tuan Chi-sui captured the city a few days later and gave Emperor Hsuan Tung 30 minutes to abdicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Orchid Emperor | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...scientific approach. The regulation which sets it up explicitly confines a science course to one which has a regular laboratory, in which the conclusions of theory are constantly tried, and often abridged, by the rigors of practice. Geography 1a and 1b have a laboratory, but it is a laboratory sui generis, and only by a stretch can it be said to fulfill even the spirit of the requirement. Its work consists in the answering of a series of questions, with the help of yearbooks and atlases. The questions are those of economics and sociology; the answers are those of economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASQUERADER | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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