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Still more appalling is the task of taking effective steps against the Dry Dragon, a passive enemy feared even in the Occident. It is of record that under the Chou Dynasty, more than two millenniums ago, some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome Chinese efforts, both before and since, have availed less in relieving droughts than have their partially successful flood control methods (success being measured by the proud statement of Chinese scholars that the great Yellow River has completely altered its course only three times in the last millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Heaven, Observe! | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...Pretty little Miss Grace Li," daughter of Li Yuan-Hung, ex-President of the Chinese Republic, entered Wellesley College to study political economy. Miss Harriet Chou (21) was her only companion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Bossing | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

Company K: Captain, C. a. Morss; 1st Lieutenant, W. Burry; 2nd Lieutenant, H. J. Hammerschlag; 1st Sergeant, C. P. Fuller; Supply Sergeant, P. E. James; Sergeants, J. Davis, J. R. Gardner, J. R. Goodnow, J. G. McGillan, A. L. Wonson; Corporals, C. C. Chou, C. B. Gulick., F. M. Kernan, F. S. MacGregor, G. A. Macomber, H. Manning, C. S. Schmalz, P. C. Washburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reserve Officers' Training Corps | 1/3/1918 | See Source »

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