Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, uncompromising Mohamed Ali Jinnah was getting cold feet. He said: "The question of the partitioning of Bengal and Punjab is raised ... to unnerve the Moslems by . . . emphasizing that the Moslems will get truncated or mutilated in a moth-eaten Pakistan. . . . It's a mistake to compare the basic principle of demand for Pakistan [with] cutting up provinces throughout India into fragmentation...
...write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken language. Jimmy Yen reduced it to about 1,000 characters, and Basic Chinese was born...
...only to teach new readers, but to find reading matter for those he has taught. With money from Publisher Marshall Field, he hopes to build up a people's press to provide his millions of "fellow scholars" (graduates of the people's schools) with cheap books in Basic Chinese. His goal: in ten years, only 10% illiteracy in China...
...matter of historical fact, the number of students working for the advanced StM or ThD degrees has almost always exceeded the number studying for the initial ministerial degree. This, to us, proves that our advanced training is of a particularly high calibre, and in no way reflects upon the basic theological training we who are "undergraduates" in the School are receiving...
...still is. Though Christianity has taken on age, respectability and power-and though some Christians seem to assume that God is always on the side of the status quo-the basic teachings of Jesus still challenge the accepted ways of the world. Published last week was a book about five religious thinkers called Modern Christian Revolutionaries (Devin-Adair; $4), edited by British Catholic Donald Attwater. First published piecemeal in England, this collection of studies by different authors is what Editor Attwater calls "a very mixed bag." Two of its subjects are Protestants, two Catholics and one is Russian Orthodox. Three...