Word: burma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's pet comic-strip heroines is that ravishing blonde, Burma, of "Terry and the Pirates." Not long ago, if you recall, she developed a violent crush on Pat, the swarthy hero of the strip--who showed a stubborn disinterest in all her advances...
...never got one. After the War he wrote his personal account of it (Old Soldiers Never Die, as yet unpublished in the U. S.) and sent it to Graves for his opinion. Graves then urged him to write the story of his pre-War soldiering in India and Burma. Result was Old Soldier Sahib...
Long ago Chiang pondered that prob-lem and selected the province of Szechwan. backed right against the Tibetan highlands and 125 miles from British Burma. Szechwan, biggest province in China proper, has a population (76,000,000) bigger than the white population of the British Empire. It is more or less isolated from Eastern China by mountain ranges and the gorges of the Yangtze River. In its centre forehanded General Chiang has quietly been setting up the biggest military and aviation base in China, 850 miles from his capital of Nanking. Szechwan's one liability is that...
...flares flickering in the dark. But as the days passed it became more & more likely that Sir Charles, who had safely pioneered almost every dangerous airway in the world, had finally tempted fate too far. Hope persisted that he might have landed on some tiny, uninhabited island, some lonely Burma beach. In California, Brother Richard Harold Kingsford Smith recalled that in 1929 Sir Charles was given up for dead when lost for twelve days in the Australian bush. Said he: "I'm not worried. He'll show...
...Pyinmana Agricultural School in Burma. "A warm Christian spirit permeates all activities...