Hankow
Britishnoun
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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
In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In Central China are the rich Wuhan Cities�Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang�of which Hankow is famed as "China's Chicago."
From Time Magazine Archive
Even in a war, I thought, I would be safer in Hankow than in these mountains and with a wind that might, for all I knew, be looking for me.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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