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...Asian employees of the State Department, Teodoro V. Madamba of the Philippines and Y. W. Jao of Formosa, spent a day looking over the University Tuesday, and were much impressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Dept. Program Brings Asian Visitors | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

...English, he does not know Urdu, which is a variation of India's Hindustani, a chop-suey language which includes Persian, Arabic and even some English words. While Rommel and his staff stood listening, the colonel rapped out his farewell. "Aj sham ko yihán se bhag jao," said he, which means roughly: "Let's get the hell out of here tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Scram in Urdu | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...months ago envious rivals declared war on the sedate Governor of Yunnan Province, Hu Jao-yu. Governor Hu lacked troops. Practical, he contracted for aid with a bandit chief well spoken of in the interior, promised him the Prefecture of the City of Megntzu and a camel-load of Mexican silver dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Megntzu's First Families | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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