Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week S.A.S. began a new term and a new life, under a new principal. The job of restoring S.A.S to its prewar heights had fallen to Peking-born Thomas C. Gibb, 36, son and grandson of U.S. missionaries, who taught English there before Pearl Harbor, has since been the acting dean of Haverford College. Finding a student body is the least of Gibb's worries. His worst headaches: locating books, desks and beds in supply-shy China; drumming up a faculty...
Although the test did not appear in the magazine from the days of Pearl Harbor, it survived in pamphlet form for the benefit of colleges, schools, clubs and discussion groups, various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, and for those of you who wrote in to ask for it. The schools, many of which enter the test marks on their pupils' records, and the U.S. Army, which used the test at home and abroad for briefing soldiers on the news, had a special need for it which we felt obliged to fulfill...
Ever since Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth made peasant life in China familiar to thousands of Americans, Publishers John Day (whose president, Richard J. Walsh, is Novelist Buck's husband) have been praying for a novel that would do as much for the peasants of India. They believe that The Land and the Well is the answer to their prayer...
...pictures illustrated Japanese triumphs. Among the best was Raid on Pearl Harbor (painted from an aerial photograph) by Fujita, a little man in bangs and Harold Lloyd spectacles who once wowed Paris with his brush drawings of cats and catlike women. Other standouts: Junkichi Mukei's Bataan Death March and Hoshin Yamaguchi's General Attack on Hong Kong, which had an Oriental delicacy of line only partly obscured by smoke from the burning city...
...diving girls are again bringing up oysters. His 1,500 factory workers are deftly seeding them with a mother-of-pearl bead. Soon he expects to have 1,500,000 oysters working for him. By mass production he hopes within a few years to have prices down to suit the pockets of the masses. His eyes are on his No.1 market, the U.S. Says he: I like Americans best. They are straight-forward-like children...