Word: prov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never yet reached by the Reds...
...vote as a whole on each draft. Group A was incontestably Hindu; Group B lumped Moslem-dominated Punjab and Sind together with the Congress-dominated North-West Frontier; Group C paired Bengal and Assam, where 36 million Moslems live with 34 million non-Moslems. Congress held out for a prov-ince-by-province vote within each group, which would assure it of a dominant voice in eight drafts instead of six. Mohamed Ali Jinnah sat tight with the British; under the group-voting plan, he had a slight edge over Congress in Groups B and C. The apparent Hindu choices...
...M.I.T. Tues., Dec. 10 Holy Cross at Boston Garden Sat., Dec. 14 Brown at Prov. Tues., Dec. 17 Tufts Thurs., Dec. 19 Boston University Fri., Dec. 27 Western Reserve at Cleveland Mon., Dec. 30 Western Reserve at Indianapolis Tues., Dec. 31 Bradley Tech at Pittsburgh Thurs., Jan. 2 Brown Wed., Jan. 8 Cornell at Ithaca Sat., Jan. 11 Princeton at Boston Garden Tues., Jan. 14 Boston College at Boston Garden Tues., Feb. 4 Northeastern Thurs., Feb. 6 Princeton at Princeton Sat., Feb. 8 Dartmouth at Boston Garden Tues., Feb. 11 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Sat., Feb. 15 Trinity...
Mate Rationing. In India's Sind Prov ince a 500-rupee ceiling on dowries produced its inevitable economic effect: a black market in bridegrooms...
...Chung is a Chinese refugee university. Driven from Wuchang to Kweilin by Japanese bombers, it now carries on deep in the hills of southern Yunnan Prov ince. From that inflation-blighted remote ness, a Chinese-American couple recently sent the U.S. an eye-opening report. It appears in the current Atlantic Monthly...