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Word: mei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past two months Ta Mei Wan Pao's offices have been guarded from terrorists. Fortnight ago, in an article on terrorism, Editor Chu wrote: "Everybody must die some time. It is an honor to die for China." One day last week, as he crossed the bridge over Soochow Creek, Chu Hsin-kung was so honored, by a single shot in the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honored Editor | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Chinese, the Japanese have gradually tightened their censorship of the Chinese and English language press. Papers outside the International Settlement were easy to deal with, and even those inside have tactfully toned down their anti-Japanese news. But one newspaper the Japanese have been unable to muzzle is Ta Mei Wan Pao (meaning Great American Evening Newspaper), Chinese-language edition of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, which is owned by the Far East's No. 1 life insurer, bustling Cornelius Vander Starr. By printing pictures of Chinese resistance in West China, Ta Mei Wan Pao has run its circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honored Editor | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Davis' discovery left Brookfield zoologists scratching their heads. They still had one living baby giant panda, Mei-Mei ("Little Sister"). Now they wondered whether Mei-Mei had the right name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: He or She? | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Chicago's Brookfield Zoo bought the late Su Lin for $7,500, Mei Mei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pandamonium | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Death and personal injury indemnification - for the death of two members of the crew of the Panay and the captain of the Mei Ping, and injury of 74 other persons on board the Panay and other vessels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Good Neighbors | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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