Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ma liked horizontal, she said 'twas more...
Courses are getting too easy and the university is in a sad plight. Let us by all means have our Chuang Tzu, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, and Po Chu-i unadulterated. With respectful kowtow, John...
...Book of Rites" written by Ma Yong in the 2nd Century...
Scrymgeour is pronoonced Skrimjer as it was when th' Heilanders defeated th' Sassan-ach at Bannockburn. aye an' at Prestonpans ferbye (an' if ye dare mention Flodden Field or Culloden, I'll slit yer throats wi' ma rusty Claymore an' feed yer misbegotten flesh tae th' Eagles...
When Commodore Perry's "black ships" arrived in Japan in 1853, Takashi Masuda (pronounced ma'-su-da) was six years old, son of a mining official on the island of Sado. The family moved to Yedo before it was rechristened Tokyo, and at 13 Takashi Masuda went to work as office boy in the compound where the first U. S. Legation was located. Every day he walked ten miles to work, seized every opportunity to learn English and study the commercial ways of Americans. Goggle-eyed with admiration for all things American, he stole American food from...