Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Your warning in TIME, Dec. 22, that the "few rules of thumb" listed for telling Chinese from Japanese are "not always reliable" is an unparalleled masterpiece of understatement. Such absurd generalities as "Japanese are nervous in conversation, laugh loudly at the wrong time," or "most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles" would have certainly made the eminent Dr. Samuel Johnson apoplectic. ... I feel the appropriateness of an admonishing Tsk ! Tsk ! MARTIN J. KATZ Philadelphia...
...spun out of cellulose and reeled into hollow spools. Dried formerly with heat, the outer fibers would dry first and contract upon the inner ones, causing nonuniform drying and shrinkage. But high-frequency radio waves emanating from an antenna in the center of the reel dry the fibers uniformly, avoid shrinkage...
...succeeds, the U.S. can avoid Government operation of the railroads (which cost the taxpayer $1,616,429,000 in the last war). And if ODT succeeds, it may outlive its emergency usefulness, to continue under another name the coordination of domestic transportation...
Blond Aryans with the louse complex were threatened by their blood brothers last week. Typhus was spreading through Poland to the Baltic States. Most of it was spotted typhus, carried by lice. German officials, settlers and soldiers were warned to avoid all contact with Polish "natives." Schools were closed in at least one town, Krakivsk Visty, Poland...
...grow lean as they age. The Chinese often put on weight, particularly if they are prosperous (in China, with its frequent famines, being fat is esteemed as a sign of being a solid citizen). > Chinese, not as hairy as Japanese, seldom grow an impressive mustache. > Most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles. > Although both have the typical epicanthic fold of the upper eyelid (which makes them look almond-eyed), Japanese eyes are usually set closer together. > Those who know them best often rely on facial expression to tell them apart : the Chinese expression is likely to be more placid, kindly, open...