Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations upon your TiMEworthy handling of the Chinese situation in your issue of June 1. As one who has some knowledge of the Orient and of Oriental psychology, I know how much the Chinese will appreciate real help at this time, and how long and resentfully they will remember it if we give them nothing but cash and conversation...
...Reischauer, Faculty instructor in Japanese, will tell the radio public about Japanese ideas and objectives in the third of the Harvard-WRUL programs on current world affairs over WRUL at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Dr. Reischauer, born in Tokyo, will draw upon his wide experience in the Orient to point his speech. It will be rebroadcast Sunday at 2:30 o'clock over WRUL over three wave lengths to reach South American and European listeners...
Liver Cancer, rare in the U.S. and Europe, but the most common form of the disease in the Orient and Africa. Reason: the Oriental diet consists chiefly of rice and vegetables. This diet makes the liver susceptible to cancerous destruction by some unknown agent. In Occidental countries, the liver is resistant to the unidentified cancer factor because it is protected by diets of milk, dairy products, wheat flour. These facts, said Dr. Cramer, show that cancer of the liver, at least, can be prevented by proper food...
...bread molds instead of the conventional malt* to convert starches to sugars, which are then fermented by yeasts. So reported Leland A. Underkofler, Ellis I. Fulmer and Lu Cheng Hao of Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol yield per bushel of corn was about 2.8 gallons with the mold...
...century and a half during which the West enjoyed certain powers in the Orient, the professor went on, the only real superiority that it possessed was one of techniques in manufacturing communication, war machinery...