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Word: hu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hu, a loose-stringed violin, looks like a cross between a walkie-talkie and a strangler's cord. The performer clutches it in a nursing position, strokes it with a long bow, makes sounds like a violin with loose strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hsi Chu | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...Start. On the morning of Nov. 15 the delegates crowded into the grey stone Assembly building on Kuo Fu Road. The Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang entered almost unnoticed by a side door. But among the drably clad provincials were some colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vital Step | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...This is the Furse Yale game I've been to since before the war," Hu Flung muttered drunkenly, Hollingshead in his hands, "and I was doing what came Nadernhy. Barzilaus-kiss my girl gave me has me so I don't know whether I'm Cummings or Cowen...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Yale Must Seek New Haven Today, Says Omniscient Sage | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Lynch me if I'm wrong," Hu Flung declared, but it shouldn't be a bum Setear to say Harvard 10 Yale...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Yale Must Seek New Haven Today, Says Omniscient Sage | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Looks like the best season in the Harlow Regine," chortled Hu Flung, "and in Schuster minute I'll let you know what DeAngelis have told me about this game...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: "We'll Do It Up Brown" | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

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