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...aqueduct, lifted its surface at high water as much as 30 feet above the surrounding plain. So frequently has the ochre stream cracked its dikes and devastated the countryside that peasants of the area call it "China's Sorrow," "The Ungovernable," "The Scourge of the Sons of Han."* Like a sluggish whiplash the river has many times changed its channel...
...Louis M. HAN SEN St. Paul, Minn...
...unlike those guarding the big Japanese bombers. They dived, attacked the invaders. Soon a spectacular dog fight involving not less than no planes, with the Chinese numerically superior, had developed. Big bombers were seen crashing to the ground, some lighter craft were observed tailspinning into the neighboring Yangtze and Han Rivers. Most of the crashing planes seemed to be Japanese...
...display is to show how the horse as an art form was treated in widely varying ways in the East from the Han period and in the West from early classical days down to the present day. In the Eastern group the works are predominantly statues, although there are also numerous tapestries, parchment drawings, and minute carvings on ivory. The objects are for the most part unnaturalistic and in all sorts of grotesque forms, reflecting the ideas of primitive...
...standing has ever committed suicide because he lost territory or for defalcation of duty. It follows then, that if in them a sense of shame was not born it must be instilled in their minds by an example such as is now provided by the execution of Han...