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Obviously these are not all the great moments, but all am saying is next time include some moments that DON'T feature filmakers you've had on the show. sze wei i've been listening to this podcast for almost a year
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The affable 54-year-old is quick to brush the unpleasant translation aside, saying "see" or "sze" in Mandarin meant a poet.
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It's another thing to choose between being a woman whose well-off father let her choose whether or not to accept a marriage proposal, join a convent, turn sze saw, etc. and being a man whose parents couldn't protect him from a slaveholder trying to breed him like cattle.
Answering a request Steven Barnes 2008
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I assume the new tire si the same sze as the old tire.
I want my $600.31 back. Angry Professor 2008
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When Yang sze-go was born, the mother of Shuh-he-ang knew, as soon as she heard him cry, that he would cause the destruction of all his kindred.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Foucard, who evangelized Shang-sze, while labouring in the disguise of a wood-cutter to avoid arousing the suspicions of the mandarins.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Cheng-i-sze-kiao-chen-jen, "Heir to the founder of the Taoist sect"; this title was conferred by the Ming dynasty upon Chang Cheng-shang, descendant from Chang Tao-ling of the thirty-ninth generation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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_Chambalu_, or Peking, was its capital, while the "most noble and vast city of _Quinsay_," or Cansay, is the ancient _King-sze_ connected with Peking by the grand canal.
Amerigo Vespucci Frederick Albion Ober 1881
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But the Analects, Tsze-sze, Mencius, and Tso Ch'iu-ming are all silent about it, and Chiang Yung rightly rejects it as one of the many narratives invented to exalt the sage.
The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 James Legge 1856
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The custom of the K'ung family not to mourn for a mother who had been divorced, took its rise from Tsze-sze [5].
The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 James Legge 1856
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