Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew to Chungking, 700 miles northwest on a Yangtze cliffside, were greeted there by thousands of bright "Welcome" flags. But the famed capital of Free China in the war against the Japanese seemed as dispirited as the rest of non-Communist China. It had survived seven years of blockade by the Japanese. Now it would be an isolated capital again, with distance and not much else to guard it from the oncoming Reds...
...members plan to set up the book center on a scale similar to the non-profit exchange at MIT. Under the MIT plan, a student deposits a book at the exchange to be sold by a set date. If not sold, he must either remove the book or sign an agreement giving the exchange power to dispose of it at its discretion...
...country's unplanned future. Almost one-third of Austria's people live in the capital. Unlike Paris on London, however, the city is unproductive. Its men of substance are doctors, lawyers, scholars, shopkeepers, or government personnel, but not manufactures or industrialists. Its former marketing and trading revenue is virtually non-existent. The rest of the country cannot support it either in food or function...
Politics, like education, in Austria is a profession of old men. Today there is no room for the young, nor are young intellectuals interested in it. University people frown on non-scholarly work and no field more than politics. A few are sincerely concerned. A young editor of the Catholic weekly in Vienna told me, "I am glad I had the Nazi experience, for I feel that only the people who knew it can understand its evil and tell others." But the tendency of the upper class youth is to shake their heads and ask, "What...
Hanford said House tutors will be in the near future hand out suggested reading lists to non-honors candidates and will explain the purpose of general examinations to them. For non-House residents, a meeting will be called in Littauer at 4 p.m. next Tuesday...