Word: yang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week as thermometers read 10° below zero; but 1,200 miles southward, in Canton, quite another sort of Chinaman was as warm as a Miami mermaid. The two kinds of Chinamen could by no possibility have understood each other in Chinese, so different are their dialects. But the Yang-kuei tze ("Foreign Devil") has taught a few Chinese of every region English, especially the word "Nationalism...
...Shanghai, chief U. S. sphere, are 4,000 U. S. citizens; half of them businessmen and professional people. Last week, though Marshall Sun seemed doing his best to defend the Yang-kuei tze, he raised the customs duties at Shanghai, and the "Foreign Devil" had to pay the surcharge...
...Lect. Rm. Goodwin-Zarakov New Lecture Hall Geology 10 Rotch Bldg. German 2 II Sever 35 German 26a Harvard 2 Government 3a Ames-Hurlbut Sever 17 Jasper-Zion Sever 18 Greek A Sever 30 Greek 11 Sever 29 History 23a Widener 47 History 30a Andrade-Elms Harvard 3 Ely-Yang Harvard 6 History 54a Emerson F Mathematics 2 IV Sever 24 Mathematics 10a Sever 29 Philosophy B Addoms-Bowker Emerson A Bradley-McKesson Emerson D Mann-Zimmerman Emerson J Philosophy 6a Germanic Mus Philosophy 27b Emerson A Physics B Memorial Hall Physics 7 Memorial Hall Physics 17a Memorial Hall Physics...
...Since success succeeds nowhere faster than in China, victorious Chang Kai-shek was kept busy receiving protestations of "loyalty" from the former subordinate generals of Wu Pei-fu. These gentry, stranded with their bands of mercenary soldiers, turned their coats with unction and alacrity. Among the first was General Yang Sen, until last week nominally subordinate to Wu Pei-fu, actually the petty despot of Wanhsien on the Yangtze, which leaped to international fame when Yang seized two British river steamers (TIME, Sept. 20) and was bombarded by British river warships for his pains...
Above the Yangtze Rapids, at Wanhsien, a British river gunboat expedition penetrated in sufficient force to intimidate the local dictator, General Yang Sen, who was prevailed upon to release two British river steamers recently seized...