Lanchow
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The tidings of his son's victory reached Ma Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the Northwest.
From Time Magazine Archive
So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years only three trusted Occidental newspapermen have been allowed to visit it.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in the last two years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek.
From Time Magazine Archive
That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line from the coast, to Lanchow, the heart of the "New Northwest."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Colquhoun, who is a high authority, has no doubt that, as Richthofen anticipated years ago, China will eventually be directly connected with Europe via Hami, Lanchow and Sian.
From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
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