Word: millet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only by moving, lock, stock & barrel, 800 miles to Changsha, then trekking another 1,000 miles over mountains to Kunming. Back home again, Peking is still on the razor's edge. Inflation has reduced professors' salaries to $30 (U.S.) a month. The typical student diet: wo ton (millet, cornmeal and water). Laboratories and libraries have never recovered from Japanese ravages; for one history class, Peking has only three textbooks. For the next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five (or at most ten) select universities. To presidents...
Anger & Ambition. Three generations later, in 1923, the relationship between Kalyanu's grandson, Jodh Singh, and the new deputy commissioner, Hugh Upton, was more complicated. The district of Garhwal remained the same: the peasants tilled their terraced fields of millet on the mountainsides, drove their sheep and goats to the high, flowering pastures in the spring, sent their women out to gather sticks for the winter fires in the smoky stone huts. Jodh Singh, however, enjoyed the privileges won by his grandfather; he had been to Lucknow University, and he felt it his mission in life to fight...
Warren Ira Cikins, of 88 Millet Street, Boston...
...people chopped up deserted houses and furniture for firewood, ate reed stalks until the planes began showering them with mixed (and heavy) blessings. Once, under an UNRRA truce, the Communists let 300,000 catties (200 tons) of millet and corn go into the city. Just as distribution was about to start, Nationalist airplanes arrived with more loaves and canned fishes, smashed several communal kitchens and sent grainbowls, chopsticks and people flying...
Could modern art ever mean so much to so many as Millet or Alma-Tadema had? Museum Director Fiske Kimball was not taking any bets. But in a thoughtful foreword to the show he pointed out that the art of the snob of today is often that of the minority of tomorrow and the majority of the day after tomorrow: "The public, which doesn't know much about art but 'knows what it likes,' actually likes what it knows...