Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy stone without getting red in the face." His speech was part of a celebration of the return of national independence to two-thirds of Korea's 30 million people and one half of its land. In Seoul, the world's second largest bell* welcomed Tai Han Min Kook-the Republic of Korea. With General Douglas MacArthur in the reviewing stand, 10,000 soldiers marched past, and tore off their constabulary insignia to symbolize their conversion into a Korean army. But Korea's heavy stone remained; Russian forces still occupied North Korea...
...months of steady rains sent, the swollen Min River plunging through Fukien province, drowning a thousand people, flooding 50 towns. A million refugees crowded the highlands, mourning the loss of 80% of Fukien's rice harvest. Tungting Lake overflowed, ruining 50% of Hunan's rice. In Kiangsi Province, 60% of the rice was destroyed; in Kiangsu...
Radio flashed the convention news to most of the country, but radio plainly had a back seat: network telecasts were on the air for 40 hrs. 20 min. more than network broadcasts. And most televiewers agreed (including a vice president of a rival network) with the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby that "LIFE and NBC . . . easily ran off with the honors, both in programs and in a technical sense...
...Back." In the midst of the affair, a Peiping newspaper, Hsin Min Pao, drew a moral...
...held a reputation for its unquenchable jumbo and before the war, Houses would compete to chug-a-lug the fastest. Holding ten regular beer glasses, the jumbo provided a nightly chance to manipulate the esophagus against a stop-watch, and the takers were many. The present record is 2 min. 3 sec. and the contest is still open; but the jumbo is as big as ever. Interest has slackened a bit now the required deposit is up to $5 but the College thirst for beer hasn't diminished. Wartime dissatisfaction with 3.2 sent veterans skipping back...