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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That Shantung's former Governor, General Han Fu-chu, was arrested by order of the Generalissimo, carried to Hankow, tried for treason and reported executed. Last year General Han contributed $50,000,000 Mex. to Chiang's cause, but his complete failure to defend Shantung presumably canceled this credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Shantung, Hong Kong | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...every path in the Yard. Occasionally one can find a few traces of sand or ashes on an otherwise glassy, treacherous surface, but such life-saving spots are far and few between, and when found, they exist only in small piles, so that their effectiveness is definitely limited. In order to navigate with even a modicum of safety, or a minimum of alacrity, so essential in these days when time-saying becomes all important, the student is forced to place one foot in front of another with extreme deliberation, and like a tight-rope walker, proceed at snail's pace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TIMES A'WASTIN'" | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

Considering these five questions in order of importance, we find them meaningless when examined in light of fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...with the tutoring schools and that at least should be the truth. As an ideal, a free review of a Freshman course should not cram the facts but, acting on the supposition that the men have done the fundamental work, it should outline the course as a whole in order to teach men where to lay the emphasis. In short, it should be a two-hour session in how to study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER FRESHMAN REVIEWS | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

Deprived of their international market by crop reduction, "the new isolated farmers will be very impoverished unless they turn to Fascism and wreck the country in order to get their relative position back," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. C. ZIMMERMAN ASSAILS PRESENT BUREAUCRACY | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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