Word: china
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Chin Hsung Wu. who is a member of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of China, will hold one of the three unnamed research fellowships at the Law School during the coming year. Wu received the degree of Doctor of Law from the University of Michigan...
Later, in China, flowered the sublimest school of Buddhism, the Mahayana (Great Vehicle). And so, it is explained, from China there now issues "the greatest 20th century disciple of Buddha...
...foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...
...typewriter was built in China by the Commercial Press, the largest printing establishment in the far East. It is the result of steady improvement since its invention in 1919, though it is not yet entirely efficient. A capable operator can write at the rate of 1000 characters an hour, which seems slow in comparison with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist...
Costes v. LeBrix. Last week Dieudonné Costes and Joseph LeBrix, onetime friends who became grumpy enemies while flying around the world together (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), started to fly from Paris to France's Indo-China. Their flights were separate and bitterly competitive?for the glory of first covering the distance in five days...