Word: fanged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier has with him 30 little Army manuals and four sets of 25 phonograph records. These are a presentation on paper and wax of the Army's top-flight Chinese-teaching team: Charles Francis Hockett, ex-University of Michigan teacher, and Fang Chaoying, ex-Library of Congress aide. The story of their experiences suggests that the soldier's strange job may make sense in any language...
Yale Sweater. He had four weeks before sailing. He went back to Yale, sweated for two days over the structure of the Chinese language, got it down to ele ments that could be written on a small sheet of paper. Next Hockett listened to two Chinese civilian assistants, Fang and Chew Hong, talk Chinese for three and a half weeks. The simplest and clearest remarks were cut on wax. Then Hockett, Fang, Hong and the officers sailed for China with lesson books, a few records, some hand-wind phonographs...
...officers got morning and afternoon classes. Fang and Hong made Chinese noises in front of the classes ; Hockett told the officers how to adjust their vocal equipment to reproduce the noises, ex plained meanings, corrected errors...
...officers drilled another two hours daily with phonographs in place of Fang and Hong...
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...