Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought to western China-a wilderness before they arrived-medical facilities, new manners, new dress, new farming methods, reading and writing (since 1938 nearly 50,000,000 Chinese have been taught to read and write). Their students, of whom a third are entirely supported by the Government, live in bamboo and mud huts, 16 boys or eight girls sleeping in a single room. They eat boiled cabbage, bean soup, a few other vegetables, often suffer from acute undernourishment. They do their own laundry, are awakened by bugles at 5 a.m. in order to make the most of daylight, save electricity...
Short, forceful, 40, he worked at Indusco with the nervous energy of a dye-stamping machine. He won Chinese workers by being able to tell jokes in many dialects, by adopting two Chinese sons, by repairing broken machinery with string, bamboo, chewing gum. All his work and hard travel (thousands of miles by bicycle) he endured not for personal gain but simply because he believed in China, in cooperative effort, in democracy...
First woman passenger ever to fly in an airplane was Edith Ogilvy Druce. (Date: Oct. 7, 1908. Place: Le Mans, France. Machine: a bamboo and piano-wire biplane. Position: seated in front of the wings. Pilot: Wilbur Wright. Duration: 3 min. Altitude reached: 97 ft.) Last week Expatriate Druce, sixtyish, two days after returning to the U. S., took her second flight as a guest of American Airlines in a modern transport plane over New York City. As a stewardess helped her into an armchair aboard the airliner, she called to the pilot: "Not too high...
...Livermore and Peter Garrett, both graduates and skiers of national repute, will probably lead the Harvard schussmen; but Del Ames, Roger Wilson, Finn Ferner and Phil Field will all place close behind, and all are expert at winding in and out of the narrowly set bamboo poles that constitute the slalom...
...specially constructed city of bamboo huts, roofed with waterproofed hubla nettings, equipped with waterworks and baths, deep in the malarious, tiger-infested Hazaribagh jungle of Bihar, over 100.000 Congress members had gathered. The site, Ramgarh village, had been chosen because 20 years' meteorological records showed it to be among Indian towns least subject to the torrential rains of March...