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Word: erh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic instruments, was as tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely. But when Professor Wei Chung-loh of China's Ta Tung National Research Institute swung out on his p'i p'a (traditional guitar of the ancient Chinese princes), they cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chinese Music | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...HOLDS A CANDLE-Erh Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). In his second exploit, small-town District Attorney Douglas Selby finds far-flung repercussions in the apparently accidental death of an unknown hitchhiker. Good detection but the D. A. can't hold a candle to Gardner's Perry Mason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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