Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yield, Banker Soong handed in his resignation as Finance Minister, was soon and repeatedly begged by the President to withdraw it, refused (TIME, Aug. 19). Last week the brothers-in-law held a further series of earnest conferences at Shanghai. In the end Banker Soong scored an impressive win. Presently he told correspondents in the smooth English he learned at Harvard that he had withdrawn his resignation as Finance Minister with the understanding that: 1) China's largest-standing-army-in-the-world (250,000) will be "quickly" reduced to one-half its present strength; 2) President Chiang...
...Welsh choir from Port Talbot captured the principal choral event. The judges, watchful of timbre, balance, locution, placed Pennsylvania's Anthracite Choir fifth. Important as usual was the bardic contest, in which young poets vie to win fame in the lyric annals of Wales. Last week Caradoc Prichard, 23, Cardiff journalist, established a record by winning for the third consecutive year. The Archdruid, robed in white with a golden breastplate, commanded the people to rise and sing Hen Whad Fy Nhadau. In purple raiment, Bard Prichard walked to the presidential chair, seated himself amid a circle of white-clad...
...Indian name: Kotaw Kaluntuchy. She claimed direct descent from Sequoyah, Cherokee Indian Chief credited with invention of the Cherokee alphabet. In 1914 she, 23, married Croker, 73. They lived in Iceland. She said to reporters: "It is the dearest ambition of every Indian girl to win a chief . . . I have won the chief of mine...
...doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years ago. The next year her husband, George W. Wightman, an able player himself, was elected President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Mother of four, brown, firm, skillful, she it was who coached Helen Wills to win the singles title from Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in 1923. "Calm, quiet, generous and sporting," as Helen Wills calls her, she it is who deserves credit for the Wills-Wightman doubles championships of 1924 and 1928. Playing together, wise Mrs. Wightman and Big Helen Wills have never been beaten...
...Mercury's wing spread is only 18 ft., her length 23 feet. Her motor is a 24-cylinder Packard, generating more than 1,100 h. p. Lieutenant Williams, expert in motors, metals and fabrics operating through high speed's, naturally expects her to win the Schneider Cup at Cowes, England, next month. To do that she must surpass the 318 m. p. h. attained by the Italian Major Mario de Bernardi...