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Word: fu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese] people's modes of living are becoming more complicated, more disorderly and with fewer standards than ever before," said Dean Chen Kuo-fu of the Central Political Institute at Chungking. "This situation must be remedied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chungking Prepares for Summer | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Great Mei Fu, who, foot-over-foot, walks up an inclined rope to the top gallery, then whizzes down it backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Greatest Show | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Nanking Government" or find it impossible to look after their interests in central China. The fighting Chungking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek observed the arrival of Wang in Nanking by issuing an order to burn every book written by either Wang Ching-wei or his disciple Chou Fu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Uncomfortable Puppet | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Sweeping across the U. S. last week was the latest fad, successor to Knock-knock, Where's Elmer?. Handies, etc.: Anything too silly or salacious to say right out was being dressed up in pidgin English and put in the innocent mouth of old Kung Fu-tze (Confucius). Most of the people who parroted "Confucius say" did not know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Kung Fu-tze Say | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...General Fu Tso Yi, who sent out a call for a bandit-suppression corps only to have most of the bandits sign up, delighted to double their earnings by plundering at night, suppressing themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Demon Through Nostril | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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