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Word: chuan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child students in Chengtu, the cultural capital of western China, 150 miles northwest of Chungking. Children between the ages of seven and 13, under their teachers' guidance, expressed their reactions to war, caricatured their Japanese enemies, drew political cartoons. One drawing, by 13-year-old Peng Teh-chuan, made use of the Chinese proverbial phrase Giving Charcoal in Snowy Weather ("A friend in need is a friend indeed") by picturing a forceful Roosevelt rushing aid to a stern Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Battles and Startled Geese | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Ruth Earnshaw, Philadelphia-born wife of Professor Lo Chuan-fang: "Out here we sometimes indulge in the notion that we college teachers are the forgotten men and women of the war. Those of us who feel that the reasons for which we entered the profession are still valid are deter mined to stick it out. . . . We know that China's war is not solely against the Japa ese; it is almost equally against ignorance and poverty, and our battle on the education front will go on long after the last shot is fired at the invader." Professor Lo (University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Pleasure Remains | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Leland D. Burlingame, of Lebanon, N. H. S.B. U. of N. H.; Pao-tung Ching, of Shanghai, China, S.M. Purdue '40; George A. Clemow, of Billings, Mont., S.B. Montana State '40; Ping Chuan Feng, of Peiping, China, S.M. Yenching '34; Ewan W. Fletcher, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert E. Geauque, of St. Louis., S.M. Missouri '40; Vernon B. Hammer, of Portland, Ore., S.B. Washington '40; William Franklin, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO FORTY-SIX | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

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