Word: mei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subordinate official of the Japanese Foreign Office. Thus the Imperial Japanese Government paid in full as quietly as possible the following itemized bill, presented by Uncle Sam after Japanese bombers sank the U. S. river gunboat Panay and Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s tankers Met Ping, Mei Hsia and Mei An (TIME, Dec. 20) : Property losses - Navy Dept...
...fell into a decline, sank lower & lower. Desperate zookeepers placed her under an oxygen tent, tried to keep her alive by artificial respiration. But Su Lin died.* Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., who last year brought back Su Lin and this year brought back another baby female panda, Mei-Mei, to serve as Su Lin's companion, promptly planned a third expedition to save Mei-Mei from loneliness...
...wilds of Tibet. Since he has a contract with the London Zoo, two of his pandas are likely to go there, while he will probably sell the others in the U. S. Chicago's zookeepers were exultant last week over the possibility of getting a male cub for Mei-Mei. Exclaimed Assistant Director Robert Bean: "Oh, Boy! Wonderful...
...Welcome, my son!" cried the Generalissimo, then indicating Mei-ling he added "and now you must meet your new mother...
...break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open to attack, and so populous that her resources of man power cannot soon be exhausted. Her greatest weakness has always been in will power. If Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling can maintain their will as China's will-the same will which said that "any sacrifice should not be regarded as too costly"-Chinese prospects are good. China's prospects now as they have been for 20 centuries are, however, only for the long pull...