Hankow
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Samuel Pailthorpe King was born on April 13, 1916, in Hankow, China, the son of a commander of a United States Navy gunboat on the Yangtze River.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2010
Foreign observers last week estimated that at least 60% of the machinery from the steel, iron, rice, flour and oil plants in the Hankow area had been moved into the interior.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, Mr. Bingham has visited and talked with all the principal Chinese leaders at the three chief seats of Chinese government: Peking, Nanking, Hankow.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in spite of scorched earth and burned buildings, the Japanese have seized the cities and important railroads of North China, and have pushed their lines up the Yangtze valley to Hankow.
From Time Magazine Archive
He told about the riots in Hankow and was reporting on what had happened to different friends when all at once I noticed that the line of my mother’s mouth had gone tight and thin.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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