Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often during the five years before Pearl Harbor, Dr. Stuart acted as a Sino-Japanese middleman. Betweentimes, he was kept busy bailing his Nationalist-minded students and faculty members out of Jap occupation headquarters and stalling Japs who wanted to hoist the puppet flag over Yenching. After the start of U.S.-Jap hostilities, when Stuart himself was interned in a house in Peiping, the Japs, who had hoped to exploit his close personal friendship with Chiang, refused to let him be repatriated to the U.S. He spent the war writing a commentary on the New Testament and playing anagrams with...
Ever since 1929, the U.S. has backed a highway to the Canal Zone, has aided by small grants to Central Americans. Pearl Harbor gave the project a terrific boost.*U.S. Army engineers poured in some $40 million, accomplished little. The P.R.A., with some $23 million, did infinitely more. Central American Governments matched 50% of P.R.A. contributions where they could. Mexicans, who pay for their own roads, speeded...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). All-French program, in honor of Bastille Day. Arias from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, Massenet's Manon, Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Gounod's Faust...
...bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs of his eyepiece. Topside, the Nevada had been painted a livid orange, striped with white. She wore her campaign ribbons painted on big boards-among them the Purple Heart with two stars (one hit at Pearl Harbor, two at Okinawa...
...Magellan discovered the Philippines for Spain and the white man-and died there in a political gang fight on tiny Mactan. Spanish customs, as well as Spanish laws, were clamped on the bewildered tribesmen like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given his countrymen...