Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended with the war. In the course of a hectic service career Joe served under Chennault, became a young China hand, was interned by the Japanese at Hong Kong. There he made the most of the six months he waited for repatriation by learning to read the Analects of Confucius in the original...
...thinks, a "foregone conclusion," and once it is achieved, orthodox Christianity will be as old-fashioned as "parish-pump politics." Our descendants, as well as the descendants of our Oriental contemporaries, will be heirs to a religion and a civilization distilled from the teachings of many spiritual messiahs, including Confucius, Socrates, Christ, Buddha, Zarathustra and Mohamed...
...Coat for Cumshaw. But the ultimate protest did not take place in the Assembly Hall. It worked itself out in a cheap hotel in a grubby lane of Nanking's crowded red-light district (nicknamed "Confucius' Temple...
This fragment was presented to us by an ancient Oriental, an habitue of the ovals, so to speak, who claims descent from Confucius, and who has shown remarkable prowess of late at Lincoln Downs. We quote in part...
...Lake Success, N.Y. appeared scholarly Kung Teh-cheng, 28, for a look at U.N. headquarters. He proved to be the great-great-(to the 77th generation )grandson of Confucius, in the U.S. for conversations with U.S. scholars. To the press, Kung said of U.N.: his ancestor would have okayed the general idea...