Word: mu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student to watch was the Boston Mu seum School's Arthur Polonsky, whose sunlit Boy at the Fence succeeded in being touching without a hint of sentimentality. William Burden Jr., of Indianapolis' John Herron Institute, sent a finely patterned, authoritatively painted study of three bicycling kids. A Portrait o/Roslyn, by the. Pennsylvania Academy's Katherine Grove, showed just how finished student work can be, and the Rhode Island School of Design's Herbert Fink contributed a boy-iff-motion that few professionals would have dared tackle (see cuts...
Characterizing the Generalissimo as "another Hitler," General Fong Mu-sheng, a self-declared exile opposing the Nationalist policies, claimed that the Kuomintang has lost the loyalty of both soldiers and people as a result of whole-sale graft and treachery...
...spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World War I. The $800 he saved put him through his first year at Michigan, where he was a serious but not brilliant student, no big man on campus, a member of Phi Mu Alpha fraternity. In his senior year, he won third place in a national singing contest, received a music scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. He spent the following summer in Chicago, dividing his time between singing lessons and reading law in the offices of his mother's cousin...
Communist cunning decreed that the mu sic of Czechoslovakia be "cleansed" be cause it was in music that the Czech spirit of independence was most likely to break forth...
...Expenses of the Fire Society are paid constantly by the people.. . . [It collects] for 'comforting the National Army.' This is paid in the form of live pigs and cash. ... As it has worked out this year, the 'official funds' to be paid by one mu [one-sixth of an acre] of land actually exceed the value of the total crop which that mu can yield. As a result, nobody in the village will accept any land, even as a gift. So land is going idle...