Word: formosae
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Carpetbagging General Chen Yi had to put aside, reluctantly, his five-year plan to "reeducate" Formosa. The chief results of his 19 months as governor general had been riots and rebellion by Formosans who detested Chen's grafting monopolies, Chen's monopoly police, and Chen himself (TIME, April 7). Last week, Nanking reached across Formosa Strait and bounced Governor Chen...
Nanking sent a mission to Formosa to "comfort the people." It was headed by Defense Minister Pai Chung-hsi, who told General Chen to relax his rule, make no more arrests except according...
...Snow Red was avoiding reeducation. When the reinforced troops reached Taichu, she and two truckloads of men drove into the cool green mountains of the interior near Jitsu-Getsu San (the Mountain of Sun and Moon), toward shelter among the Formosa aborigines, whom neither the Manchus (in 212 years) nor the Japs (in 51) could ever reeducation...
...Amazons. From the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., Dr. Carl Hubbs reported on a small fish called Molliensia formosa. It is a native of Mexico with an odd family tree...
...Hubbs collected his first "Mollies" in 1930, and was puzzled because he did not find a single male. He brought the females back to his aquarium in Michigan, watched them narrowly, discovered that they were Amazons.* Among the Molliensia formosa, there are no males at all. Their offspring (conceived internally) are all female. When Molly requires a male, she borrows him from a related species...