Word: atkinsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laopaihsing-"old hundred names"-the Chinese call the little people of China. The laopaihsing are the backbone of China's long endurance. Last week in Kweilin, at the end of the trunk railway from Hengyang, New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson sampled laopaihsing opinion, asked the little people what they would do if the Japs came...
President James Bryant Conant and the Harvard Corporation were hosts to Mayor John H. Corcoran, City Manager John B. Atkinson, and eight Cambridge City Councillors at Eliot House last night. This dinner is the second of the annual affairs initiated last year...
From an air base in China New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson reported that a U.S. flyer, cutting across the mountains to Chinese Turkestan, had taken his plane up through a soupy overcast to 31,000 ft. Said the unnamed pilot: "I was surprised to find I was flying parallel with a mountain, between 2,000 and 3,000 ft. below its peak...
What an American plane was doing on the Turkestan route, Atkinson did not report. But directly across the line of flight between central Asia and some of the China bases lies the legend-shrouded, fabulous peak of Anye Machin. Standing at the clear headwaters of the Yellow River, high on the fringes of Tibet, cloudy Anye Machin has never been surveyed, is known to geographers and explorers only by native report...
...Gissimo's Minister of War, bespectacled, anti-Communist General Ho Ying-chin, told New York Times Correspondent Brooks Atkinson: "There will be no civil war. . . . The Generalissimo's plan to solve the Chinese Communist problem by pacific and political means is progressing satisfactorily with every chance of succeeding...