Word: yat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the busy bombers, dropping pyrotechnic flares to light their work at night, had wrecked the Sun Yat-sen University, the British-owned Saichuen power station, cutting off all air-raid alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth Sun Yat...
...selling Bibles to Chinese as fast as the missionaries created a demand. Investing his profits at about 40% Chinese interest, he died a merchant prince. Old Mrs. Soong had not forgotten that her late husband had tumbled another of her daughters unceremoniously into the arms of old Dr. Sun Yat-sen (who also had another wife at the time) and that the marriage had been a master stroke for the House of Soong...
...steel as a sculptural medium, was Beniamino Bufano, tough, visionary little Italian whose greatest ambition is to build San Francisco a 180-ft. statue of St. Francis of Assisi (TIME, Feb. 15). Many an old Chinese who suns himself daily in St. Mary's Square can remember Sun Yat-sen during his residence in San Francisco about 30 years ago; Sculptor Bufano can remember living in his Canton household for several months...
...roof and pattering loudly into tin pans. It was impossible to talk in comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general how Japan has helped eminent Chinese-indeed Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang received his military education as a cadet in Tokyo...
...Yat-sen in his will said that China should unite with peoples who treat us on a basis of equality. We must realize that union with Russia is the only course left in the sphere of international cooperation...