Word: lu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the Red squeeze is on. One prominent American-trained psychologist, Lu Chih-wei, was liquidated when he refused to sign an anti-American testimonial; others have been pressured into phony confessions and self-ridicule. What hurts most is the enforcement of Communism's concept of science as a political and social weapon rather than a "bourgeois" search for truth. Meteorologists were ordered to "learn from Chairman Mao's statement on party doctrine." At a conference of mathematicians, one topic was "How to Realize Patriotism Through Education in Mathematics." At another meeting, the president of the Society...
Panel House. To boost lumber sales, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association put on its first big national show in New York last week, and displayed the new "Lu-Re-Co" (for Lumber Research Council) house of pre-built panels. To show how easily the house can be put up (at an estimated 25% reduction in labor costs), the association built three of them on the spot (see cut). It has been selling plans for five different Lu-Re-Co three-bedroom houses ranging from $12,500 to $13,500, expects that more than 2,500 of them will...
...city's gutters. Meanwhile, well out of the newsmen's hearing, Attlee and his fellow travelers talked long and earnestly with Premier Chou En-lai and his henchmen of the possibility of expanding East-West trade. At the end of the talks, a Chinese trade official, Lu Shuchang, told newsmen gratefully that British ships were already helping to bring steel, heavy machinery and other strategic materials from Western Europe to Red China. In London, British officials resorted to an Americanism to deny the assertion: "Baloney...
...course, the boy borrowed; and when he failed to borrow enough, he married for money-not much money, and not, by his standards, much of a woman. Kristina was a well-built Swedish girl from Minnesota who had read nothing, talked and dressed like an immigrant, and called him "Lu-key." But she was the head operating-room nurse at the university hospital, and she loved Luke in spite of all his inhuman fanaticism for his career. She put him through medical school. For Luke, it was the last that mattered...
Baubles, Bangles and Beads (Lu Ann Simms; Columbia). A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles. Originally composed by Borodin (Prince Igor), although he gets no label credit...