Word: hu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in China the philosopher Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) had taken to writing in Pai-hua or spoken Chinese (as contrasted with written Chinese, called Wen-li). But even this could be read only by other scholars-the people at large were still illiterate...
...very Manley bunch, in fact they're Kleymen. They won't cause much Trumbull with Jawn at the Rutter. Anyhow, they are on our Lister beat. The game will be a Zullo and we'll have a Hooper of a time, so Troy and be there," Hu Flung urged his friend. Harvard 13 Tufts...
...cent beer and small talk that ranges from post war planning to post mortems on the current collapse of the Nazis, compose, rewrite, and assemble news stories up to that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. In order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Michael Mullins, and others, candidates will go through a six week competition in which they must prepare to acquire the scent for news, follow the elusive vapor to its source, and report the results in readable prose...
...Ying Sung, our Chinese researcher, is a Wellesley graduate who spent five years as Professor of Western Literature at the University of Peking. There she worked with China's foremost scholar, slight, charming Dr. Hu Shih. She came to the U.S. in 1940, broadcast one of Mme. Chiang's speeches to the Nazis in German, headed the Chinese desk at the OWI for thirteen months...
...figures: more than 3,500 members (about half of them men), weekly meetings, an average attendance of from 500 to 1,000. Speakers who have addressed the Council and answered open-forum questions resemble a walking Who's Who of international affairs -China's Dr. Hu Shih, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, former Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew, Peru's Dr. Alberto Arca-Parró, a host of others...