Word: occidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still more appalling is the task of taking effective steps against the Dry Dragon, a passive enemy feared even in the Occident. It is of record that under the Chou Dynasty, more than two millenniums ago, some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome...
The proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples...
*The ideographs representing the words sachiko and hisa mean "heavenly" and "long-enduring," and may be translated as Steadfast Helper, Eternal Happiness or Ever Benign. No-Miya denotes Imperial rank, such as Royal or Imperial Highness in the Occident.
* Ancient name of China, in the Occident.
Peking. Amid this Shanghai war on "Reds," able New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty arrived from Moscow at Peking and cabled, "This correspondent happens to know that the Communist Party's politbureau has been advocating far less Communism in China than its enemies care to admit." He continued that...