Word: tientsin
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...first tournament blind baggage seven years ago, was teamed with Lawson Little of San Francisco. Semifinalist in last year's National Amateur, Golfer Little is accustomed to playing in the world's far corners, having learned the game while his father was an army officer stationed in Tientsin. Opposing Little and Goodman were huge Cyril Tolley and Roger Wethered. That match was won on the first tee when Little stepped up to the ball and lined a drive 30 demoralizing yards farther than Wethered's. Long before the match ended 8 and 6 in favor...
...campus' friendliest and best-liked girls. She is treasurer of the Athletic Association, was president last year of the International Club. Her father, Zoong Ing Ting, is a Shanghai physician. Her aunt, Dr. Vung Ting, China's No. 1 woman physician, is head of Tientsin's Women's Hospital. When she finishes at Bryn Mawr next year Vung-Yuin Ting plans to go to the University of Michigan Medical School, then back to Shanghai to practice with Dr. Zoong Ing Ting. In Manhattan last week Columbia University Press announced publication of Eleanor Gertrude Brown...
...bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth was quite sufficient but on the insistence of his Japanese "protectors" in Tientsin Henry took Wife...
...Boxer Rebellion, Dr. Morrison of the London Times and Dr. Robert Coltman of the News were besieged in the foreign compound at Peking. A Chinese beggar smuggled their stories to Tientsin. In 1904, the News had a reporter traveling with Kuroki's Army through Manchuria. When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea. Victor Lawson was more concerned with making the News a good paper than running up his circulation, but the News grew with its city...
...Charles Penrose Rushton Coodet son, grandson and son-in-law of British admirals, strode the bridge of H. M. S. Peacock and trained his guns upon the iniquitous Boxers of Tientsin. For that they gave him the China Medal. In 1904, on the bridge of H. M. S. Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained...