Word: 114th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Japanese can be counted on to understand, and General Chiang's resistance to Japan has presumably been stiffened by the U.S. loan of $50,000,000 to Chungking, which has drawn many Chinese bankers to that city from Shanghai. Last week as Chungking got its 114th bombing-as usual a poor exchange of Japanese steel and high explosives for Chinese brick and rubble-Far Easterners began referring to Chungking as the economic center of China. A popular Chinese witticism about U.S. aid-"Loud noise on staircase but nobody comes down steps"-is still funny but perhaps less...
Academicism was all over the place last week. In Manhattan opened the 114th annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design. Chicago's Art Institute, unofficial academy of the Middle West, had its 44th annual Artists-of-Chicago-&-Vicinity exhibition. In Manhattan's Durlacher Galleries opened the first representative U. S. showing of 17th-Century Nicolas Poussin, granddad of all French academic painters...