Word: tans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been in Hugo, Tex., for a while, he played in a professional game for which he was paid $2.50. Then he played more for Hugo and was paid a little more and then he moved on to a town called Dennison. One afternoon a stranger in a tan felt hat watched him from the little stand beside the bleached, hot field. The stranger was Con- nery, scout for the St. Louis Cardinals; oilers had told Connery that there was a good player in Dennison. Connery paid $500 for Hornsby's release and handed him a ticket to St. Louis...
...feel that a great injustice has been done to him by the statement that he professes "an unalterable resolve not to set foot in the United States," which we wish to disclaim at once now, as readers of your paper might think that Mr. Tan Kah Kee cherish an aversion towards the American people, whom he has always held in high esteem and regard as sincere friends of China's welfare. He has never been to Europe or America (the statement is wrong when it says that he has several times visited Europe), owing to the multifarious duties...
...Tan Kah Kee & Co. and its various ramifications are known all over the world, and are the pioneer Chinese exporters of crude rubber and preserved pines to Europe, America and Canada...
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...Tan Kah Kee whose picture appeared in TIME, March 12, is reputedly the "richest Chinese...