Word: te
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descendant of Manchu Lords who marched from Manchuria to conquer China three centuries ago. Today he is a Japanese puppet but he also rules the land of his Manchu forefathers. The population of Manchukuo. which is 95% Chinese, is being taught to venerate His Imperial Majesty Kang Te. Last week under Japanese officers the 95% Chinese troops of his Manchurian Army were the sturdy vassals of Empire who fought the Mongol vassals of the Soviets. Inner Mongolia is rapidly passing from Chinese to Japanese control and, if its people have a spokesman, he is bland, stocky Prince Te who goes...
...Japanese after they defeated famed General Ma and set up the Manchu Emperor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Relations Ruptured- In jittery fear lest Eastern Asia be plunged into a great war by the fighting begun last week, the more prosperous subjects of His Imperial Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until all transport facilities were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian metropolis of Manchukuo. which teems with both White Russians and Red, furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops...
Thus His Majesty the Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo is happy in holding the thought that he was not set up by Japan as a puppet, but restored by loyal Chinese to a throne in the realm of his Manchu forefathers-a happy thought flatly contradicted by the facts...
With the near approach of the Tercentenary and the almost hourly use of the word in faculty circles, one thorny problem arises. It appears that the director of the Tercentenary, when speaking of the celebration which he is planing, always refers to it as the tur-sen-te-na-ri, with the accent on the "sen," the "te" being pronounced...
...other hand the official historian of the celebration when speaking of the anniversary always refers to it as the tur-sen-te-na-ri, with the accent on the "te," the "e" being pronounced as in "event." It's all a question of penults and ante-penults, and according to the latest Webster's the former is correct as to the accent, the latter as to the pronunciation of the "te...