Word: yu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marshal Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian Tuchun (War Lord), was marching upon the Capital. General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," discovering that many of his generals were "neutral," decided that he would not fight Chang...
Signs pointed to the fact that Chang will soon exercise complete control over all northern China to the exclusion of General Feng Yu-hsian, "Chinese Christian soldier," which, in turn, may operate to turn the South from a passive into an active enemy and give further force to the disunification of China...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Lake Placid Club has never attempted complete fonetic spelling as yu report (TIME, Apr. 20, P. 16) but it does omit many useless and misleading letters as needed pioneer work. The ending of sing, bring, etc., is neither n, g, nor any combination of n and g, but a simple sound which skolars the world over for almost a century hav represented by a taild...
...President, guests are familiar with such items as the following on his bill of fare: "krem of whet," "kofe," "fryd egz," "frut," "kak," "yc krem." In a letter apropos of articles on simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl as long as yu think wize that wud be folod now and then by short one. . . ." In this sentence, the word "long," instead of ending with an "ng," was terminated by a symbol similar in shape to a Greek "eta," standing for both letters at once, which Mr. Dewey had evidently had mounted specially...
Meantime, ugly rumors went about Peking. General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," was reported to be planning to attack the Chief Executive, Tuan Chi-jui, on the score that the latter is as corrupt as his predecessors...