Word: tao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunately true that the majority of the Filipino women who have consorted with American men have been of the tao, or peasant class. Unable by the hardest kind of drudgery to earn more than 50 cents a day, or a single Philippine peso, many of these abandoned or widowed women have taken other partners, or, as is often the case, have drifted into immorality. In such conditions the boys soon are kicked out to shift for themselves, while the girls are farmed out, or 'loaned,' to friends or relatives...
...defeat of Russia, the passing of one kingdom--the independence of Korea--, and the Japanest domination of Manchuria, were among the first fruits of the Alliance. Without the Alliance the result of the Russo-Japanese War would have been different. In 1914, before--Japan mobilized to attack Tsing-Tao, the former German leasehold in Shantung, she called on Great Britain for joint action, basing her request on the Alliance. That was the beginning of this complicated international problem of Shantung, which the iniquitous decision of the Paris Peace Conference has made known the world over. Then the Shantung question started...