Word: kwang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four graduate students selected are: Donald J. Blake '46; Dudley Frasier '45; Donald Greenholz '45; Kwang Liu '46; Alan S. Prager '46; James C. Raff '45; John G. Rowe '45; John T. Tate...
Veteran, bespectacled General Ho Kuo-kwang, commander of China's air defenses, breathed these thankful words last week at a banquet in Chungking. All day there had been mass meetings, speeches, athletic contests. Forty-eight boys & girls, the youngest only seven, had leaped bravely from a parachute tower. Winner of the contest was nine-year-old Sung Kuo-shua. The celebration was of Chinese Air Force Day-and the blossoming of new hope in China's old, war-weary land...
Last week in San Francisco's harbor lay the Kwang Yuan, a 28 year-old tramp three-master. Her deck machinery was rusted tight by rain, barnacles were four inches deep on her rusty hull. In the captain's quarters lounged "Captain" Chan Tze-ming; in the engine room "Chief Engineer" Wang Chi-fu reigned over nosy harbor rats and cold, dry engines. It was the Kwang Yuan's third year at anchor...
Three years ago Chan Tze-ming and Wang Chi-fu signed on in Chefoo, China, with 18 other Chinese, to sail the Kwang Yuan. The crew discovered that the "Chinese" company which had bought the craft had placed aboard three Japanese officers, learned in San Francisco the Kwang Yuan was to carry 2,100 tons of scrap iron to an Osaka (Japanese) munitions factory...
Last week, as he has every week since 1938, "Captain" Chan climbed over the side, rowed solemnly ashore, asked with impassive Oriental punctilio for sailing orders. As always, there were none. For the Kwang Yuan there may never be any. "Captain" Chan bowed politely, bent his oars back to his command...