Word: ta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than shot the cue ball in making one point. The referee waved Greenleaf away. When he continued to argue the referee disqualified him. Next day Greenleaf fans learned their idol had filed suit for divorce from his wife, a Eurasian vaudeville singer who calls herself Princess Nai Tai Ta. When they were first married eight years ago Mrs. Greenleaf took a lively interest in her husband's work, wore a brown en semble at his games for luck. At exhibition matches she also essayed to sing accompaniments to Greenleaf's fanciest shots. When they separated, Champion Greenleaf...
...assets and net income from 1919 to 1929. He had bought & sold $1,417,011 in securities and $243,351 in real estate, at a total profit of $361,445. To this was added $362,923 from salary, dividends, rents and interest, making a net income of $724,368. TA corporate body which controls all canals, waterworks, sewage and drainage systems in Cook County. Neither fish nor fowl, it is responsible to no other local government, raises its own money by taxation. Authority is vested in nine trustees...
Chinese generals in the north were not so sure. Reports reached Tientsin that a new "Western Expedition" of 3,000 Japanese troops was sweeping from conquered Jehol province into Chahar Province, Inner Mongolia. Mayor Chou Ta-wen of Peiping ordered anti-aircraft guns mounted at 20 points round the old city wall. Not that he could keep Japanese troops out, but just to make things more uncomfortable for them. Bets increased that the Heaven-Sent Army will set hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi on the dragon throne of the old Forbidden City before summer. Peiping universities packed up their libraries...
Samples of S. O. E. D. definition: "Tycoon. 1863. (ad. Jap. taikun great lord or prince, f. Chinse ta great & kiun prince.) The title by which the shogun of Japan was described to foreigners...
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