Word: tang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gains desert was one of the expedition's objectives. The city, uninhabited now for some 400 years, is mentioned by Marco Polo as Edzina. The Fogg expedition made a map of the city and succeeded in bringing back from there some small frescos, a fine mirror of the Tang period, and several interesting fragments of broken pottery...
...back to her girlhood stifled by her mother-living again the romance of the Spanish-American War, learning not to cramp her own daughter's style of loving. Lewis Beach's stage play, The Square Peg, here transferred to the screen, has had some of the acrid tang carefully sponged out of it. But enough remains to vitalize this study of the ironbound mother determined to be good to her family, let the chips fall where they...
Explanatory of the foregoing were statements, official and otherwise, issued by Tuan through his Foreign Minister, Tang Shao-yi. The gist of these was: "Reform within the country" would precede the Government's efforts to "raise the nation's standing abroad" (i.e. "equalize" China's treaties...
Foreign Affairs: Tang Shao...
...there are many alternatives presented, as: "This is the story of the late holiday price-cutting war of the New England rum fleet" or: "Ho Nim and Fong Tang had just finished their supper in the tiny kitchen behind the laundry of Jim Fong, 2006 Chester Ave., Wednesday night...