Word: jun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hockey summary: HARVARD JUN. OLYMPICS Patrick, l.w. l.w., Thompson Harding, c. r.w., Owen Winslow, r.w. c., Sullivan Jameson, l.d. l.d., Aura Houghton, r.d. r.d., Chapman Mittell, g. g., Donoghey...
...Fortnight ago the Bureau of Air Commerce released the figures, for the first six months of 1936, behind the current U. S. production and transport boom. Compared to the same period in 1935, they stacked up as follows: Jan.-Jun. Jan.-Jun...
...Noah Webster, jun., esq. (as he signed himself, to the ribald delight of his lighter-minded contemporaries) was too ambitious to be tripped by ridicule. In the era of vacillating reconstruction after the Revolution he saw his didactic chance, made it his patriotic duty. He launched his first Speller as a Yankee privateer against the King's English: "I have too much pride to stand indebted to Great Britain for books to learn our children the letters of the alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse...
...cultured, well-to-do Wang family of Peiping named their daughter Ta-jun ("All Gracious"). When, aged 11 and just out of elementary school, the child was found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang...
...Married, Jun Chi, 25, only brother of Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China. Japan's puppet "Regent of Manchukuo; and San Kuo. 19. sister of Henry Pu Yi's wife; in Manchuria. Jun Chi attends the Peers' School in Tokyo...