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Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buddhist Institute | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Died. Wang Sun Yun, great grandson of the onetime Emperor of Korea, a self-supporting student at Hastings College; at Hastings, Neb., of Banti's disease (an affliction of the liver, spleen, blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...only local influence as Military Governor of Chekiang province. Recently he boldly proclaimed the five provinces now within his grasp to be an independent state. Last week it was discovered that he was plotting against the Peking forces with Super-Tuchun Wu's most trusted henchman, General Chin Yun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Passive, Trampled | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...Chinese situation is beginning to assume world importance, and deserves a great deal of consideration by statesmen of today. The present government under the acting presidency of Li Yun-Hung is maintaining over a million soldiers under arms. What the outcome of the internal fighting will be is unknown, but it is going to be of immense importance to the world. How soon it will be important depends on how rapidly a new and lasting unity is achieved. That this unity will take the form of a democracy, I have no doubt. The Chinese have never believed in the Divine...

Author: By Bishop OF Hankow., | Title: CHINA A VITAL FACTOR WITH VAST POSSIBILITIES | 11/7/1922 | See Source »

Wesleyan was first at bat and through the whole game was entirely at a loss to comprehend Highlad's curves. They scored their only yun in the third on a base on balls, a steal, a passed ball, and an error by Cook. From this on not a man passed second base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base Ball. | 6/2/1892 | See Source »

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