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Word: changefulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business." You peer inside a tobacco and cake shop on Nankwan Street. It is a cubicle of dried mud and sticks, windowless, papered with yellowing sheets of the Liberation Daily. Proprietor Yang Huan-chang, a snaggle-toothed elder of 60, greets you as "Comrade," invites you in for a smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A WALK IN YENAN | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

George Jaszi and Pei-Kang Chang, who received Ph.D.s in 1946, each won a $500 David P. Wells Prize in Economics yesterday for a thesis in the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Awards Two $500 Economics Prizes | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

Jaszi's prize-winning thesis discussed the subject of "The concept of National Income and National Product with Special Reference to Government Transactions," while Chang wrote on "Agriculture and Industrialization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Awards Two $500 Economics Prizes | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

...ritual dramas and folk plays, heard scratchy Ch'ing Dynasty blues and a half-dozen pieces by a "classical orchestra"-an ensemble that was ancient when Confucius was young. Though Broadway-farers made little sense out of the dancelike dramas, they liked the sword dance by Gardenia Chang, the gaudy plumage, rooster-strutting and extravagant simpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hsi Chu | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...straggled in. The General had invited them some time ago for afternoon movies and ice cream; he would not break this date even for affairs of state. Between meetings with the press and a long list of callers, including T. V. Soong and Chou En-lai's secretary, Chang Wen-chin, the General looked in on the moppets as they disposed of a gallon or so of vanilla. That evening he drove to the Gimo's again for family dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Goodbye | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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