Word: ch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summary: G. Sarshman; rf, Knowlton; lf, Coggan; rh, Curtin; ch, Mavor; lh, Coon (Stromberg); ir, Ruckle; cf, Potter; il, Pearson; ol, Kern, Substitutes; Omar, Klobyornson, Mable...
...Germans' Hollywoodish Balkan empire was collapsing like a papier-mâch...
Presented to the University by more than 1000 Chinese alumni during the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, the monument belonged originally to Emperor Chia Ch'ing, of the Ch'ing dynasty. The emperor presented it to one of his favorite governors in the year 1810, and it remained in China until the Tercentenary, when Dr. J. Heng Lin '09, of Nanking, purchased it as a gift for Harvard, in recognition of the educational contributions of America's oldest college...
...Gaulle's persistence and to General Eisenhower's common sense is due the credit for this happy state of affairs. When, solely on his own initiative, General de Gaulle visited Normandy in June, he left behind François Coulet as Regional Commissioner and Colonel Pierre de Chévigné as military representative with instructions to recruit and train a French fighting force in Normandy. Upon his return to England, De Gaulle called on General Eisenhower and casually told him what had been done...
...promises. U.S. and British forces on the Burma fringe, U.S. airmen in China had done what they could for China (and for the Allied cause). Millions of U.S. dollars had been poured into China to provision the Fourteenth Air Force, bolster China's strained finance. But Erh Ch'i-July 7, the Double Seventh, the seventh day of the seventh month-would not be a happy day for the Chinese. It had not been a happy day since 1937, when the Japanese chose the Double Seventh to seize the Marco Polo Bridge near Peiping, begin the long "incident...