Word: ting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke diving last summer, had won four. France's Dupuy had won two. Gandara of France and Barella of Spain had won one each. Tennes' U. S. teammate, Walter Everett, crowded into the final by winning a special heat for boats that had placed second without get- ting any firsts. Dupuy, a daring driver who heeled his boat around the buoys so sharply that it resembled an oldtime cinema comedian turning a street corner, got away fast and held the lead for one complete circuit of the course. Tennes, away third, passed Everett on the first lap, caught...
...enough to hold a pony. It was lined with i.ooo Ib. of frozen carbon dioxide, popularly called "dry ice." The temperature inside was somewhere between - 100° and - 110° F. The spectators waited to see a black-browed young daredevil risk his life for Science by get ting into that icebox and staying there for half an hour. Daredevil Mark Edward Ridge wanted to test a "stratosphere suit" which he claimed he had invented with the help of someone named Ring. The suit was composed of cotton cloth and thin laminated aluminum in twelve alternating layers. To protect himself...
...Central Executive Committee arrived in Nanking last week for their fourth congress. A month ago, with six revolts crackling under him, Chiang looked like a heavy loser. Picking the key revolt, he cracked down hard on the Fukien rebels headed by smart Trinidad-born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced by stumbling recruits. Reeling southward last week the rebels paused briefly...
...Chinese statesman, in & out Foreign Minister of the Northern and Southern Governments, onetime (1929-31) Chinese Minister to the U. S.. son of the late great Statesman Wu Ting-fang; of a cerebral embolism; in Hongkong...
...Fukien near Canton was announced to have "seceded" (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week Fukien's bold rebels dared to claim that they, not Nanking, represent the true Government of all China. Hurling defiance at Generalissimo Chiang they announced that their army will be led by General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb 22. 1932, et seq.) What is left of the Old 19th, brought up to full strength by new recruits, will fight under General Tsai. More important, the new Fukien Government has as its "brains" that...