Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Zuoying.
TSOYING, Formosa, July 8 -- Chinese Nationalist leathernecks and frogmen are being taught here the art and the science of modern warfare.
1955 August 3, Tad Szulcspecial, “AMERICANS TRAIN FORMOSA MARINES; Instruction of Frogmen Also Part of U. S. Aid Program on Nationalist Island”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 20235 more examples
§325.15 Designation of differential posts. The following places are designated as differential posts at which each eligible employee shall be paid additional compensation in the form of a foreign post differential in accordance with the regulation in this part: (a) At the rate of 25 percent of basic compensation:[…] Pingtung, Taiwan China.[…] Taichung, Taiwan, China.[…] Tsoying, Taiwan, China.
1949, “Index”, in Code of Federal Regulations, Government Printing Office, published 1949, →ISSN, →OCLC, Title 4—Title 5, pages 306–307IN A SAIL LOFT two native women repair canvas rigging for Chinese navy, which maintains several bases on Formosa. These women at the base at Tsoying cover their faces and arms to keep skin soft in heat of the workshop.
1950 February 6, “Formosa Girds for a Lonely Last Stand”, in Life, volume 28, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 3Plans were made at a conference in Tsoying with representatives present from ICA, Chinese Navy, MAAG and other organizations to submit to U.S. Army Engineers' District Office in Okinawa estimates for an extensive improvement of the water supply for the Tsoying Naval base and the City of Tsoying.
1959 February, “China (Taiwan)”, in ICA Health Summary, Public Health Division, International Cooperation Administration, →OCLC, page 10Earlier, Stromberg-Carlson had received another contract that provided a 1600 line XY switchboard for the Nationalist Chinese Navy to be used at its headquarters at Tsoying, near Kaoshiung in Southern Formosa.
1965 February 17, “Chinese Government Orders S-C Equipment”, in General Dynamics News, volume 18, number 4, General Dynamics, →OCLC, page 3, column 5Well within the range of its lenses however were special assault troops, storming up through the surf of a beach near Tsoying—simulating the return to the mainland to which Chiang was committed.
1969, Peter Hopkinson, “On an Island in the Pacific—Time Marches Off”, in Split Focus: An Involvement in Two Decades, Rupert Hart-Davis, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 170
Origin
- Mandarin左營
- EnglishTsoying
From Mandarin 左營 (Zuǒyíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tso³-ying².
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