Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Li & Miss Liu. Loudspeaker trucks blared through the streets of Nanking and other large cities. Walls were pasted with purple and yellow posters proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao, "go to so many feasts they have stomachaches every day." But this time the Kuomintang made good its promise that seats guaranteed to minor parties should indeed go to minor parties. To teach party discipline on other matters, Kuomintang leaders cracked the whip...
...variety and sensitivity. Leo Genn may not be the romantic Adam that O'Neill had in mind, but he is still entirely plausible. There are several minor quibbles but only one broad complaint to be lodged with the moviemakers. The film is far too long (2 hrs. 59 min...
...Yankee Stadium was the biggest in history, and had spent a record $327,659 to get in. What they saw set some kind of a record, too; for bad pitching, and for edgy, spectacular play. It was the longest nine-inning game (3 hrs. 19 min.) in Series history; the Yankees used more players (21) and both sides more pitchers (ten) than ever before. This time it was the proud Yankees, hustled to distraction by Brooklyn's irreverent Bums, who looked sloppy. The Dodgers won, and evened the Series...
Prescription for Austerity. One man who publicly neither complained nor scoffed was Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Both the Government and the Kuomintang, he told the San Min Chu I Youth Corps, were suffering from "corruption and deterioration of spirit...
...logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours later, Morgan's Dolphin II sailed past Diamond Head, the winner. Corrected time (after subtracting more than two days' handicap): 11 days 1 hr. 3 min. 59 sec.-a new record...