Word: kweichow
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...gravest of all was the threat of the western finger, resting on Paoching and pointing across the Kweichow plateau to the Fourteenth's great central bases at Kweiyang and Kunming...
...Fellows in Electronics: William C. Bohn, of Maplewood, N. J., S.B. Harvard '25; George L. Harvey, of Atlanta, Go., S.M. University of Arkansas '40; James R. Hooper Jr., of Dedham, Mass., S.M. Harvard '39; Alfred Keck, of Hyde Park, Mass., S.M. Harvard '41; Yu-yueh A. Mao, of Pingyueh, Kweichow, China, S.M. Harvard '41; David Middleton, of New York, N. Y., A.B. Harvard '42; Sidney Soloway, of Worcester, Mass., S.B. Worcester Polytechnic Institute '41; Leo W. Tobin Jr., of Flint, Mich., A.B. Harvard '42; and Guy Worsley, of Pennington, N. J., A.M. Cambridge University, England...
...obstinate, primitive, multimillioned man power that is performing this heroic transformation is Kukan's theme. These are people that most U.S. cinemaddicts have never seen or known. They are shy, handsome, aboriginal Miaos from the mountains of Kweichow; turbaned Mohammedans from Lanchow, heart of China's northwest frontier; greasy nomads from The Gobi; Lamas from Tibet; Hans; Manchus...
...British Royal Army Medical Corps, left his laboratory in Peiping Union Medical College to organize the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps (to train doctors, nurses and orderlies). Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster. Kweiyang, more than a thousand miles southwest of Peking, is now the medical centre of Free China: there are the refugee remains of famed National Hsiangya Medical College, formerly known as Yale-in-China...
...people produce four harvests a year. Rice, wheat, barley, millet, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, beans and cotton make up its harvests. Neighboring Yunnan has tin, copper, iron and coal, and its mulberry leaves are juicy enough to nourish a great silk industry. Kweichow is up-tilted country, good for cattle raising and orchards...