Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At times he traveled over roads that were cut through beds of coal, with great chunks of shining anthracite used for fence rocks. Sometimes his path was a rushing muddy stream, over whose slippery rocks he had to pick his way. This precarious route, he found, was the lifeline of...
When he reached the Valley of Chin, he found it no longer a land of rice and persimmons. It was a battleground, a mud-soaked, blood-soaked Hell. The severest rains in years and a Japanese Army crazed with hunger and lust had simultaneously descended on it. By the time...
When he graduated he was awarded the Sheldon Prize Fellowship-$1,500 for a year's travel outside the U. S. He had looked forward to China: he had studied Chinese at Harvard, and he wanted to see what war is like. What he saw made him chuck traveling...
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Riches. Some day Shansi may be China's Pennsylvania (see map). The province is watered by tributaries of the Yellow River, which divides Shansi from Shensi. Shansi's rough mountains are heavy with anthracite and iron, and because lack of communications has so far meant limited exploitation, the...