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Word: joss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gimo had a list of specific changes demanded by the new austerity: fewer passenger cars and more buses; fewer attendants and servants for public officials; less meat, tobacco, wine, candies and superstitious use of joss paper; cheaper weddings, funerals and gifts on holidays; a boycott of dance halls and gambling; heavy taxes on luxuries; severe penalties for government offices which steal water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Life Will Move Downward | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Come to me as joss paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Poet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

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