Word: ruh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Adams East of Berkeley, Calif, is a sure mistress of the trumpet, which she first took up to develop breath control when she thought seriously of becoming a singer. She proved her feeling for tone last week with Schubert's Du bist die Ruh' and the Ave Maria, her facility at triple-tonguing with Rimsky-Korsakoy's Hymn to the Sun, her physical stamina when at the end of her program she played three encores...
...Several pronunciations of Jehol are equally permissible. The "J" is pronounced either like R in ran or like the French J in jour. The "L" is silent in China proper, is sounded by Manchurians. According to the standard "Wade System" of rendering phonetics into English, Jehol is pronounced "Ruh-huh" and Manchukuo is pronounced "Mahndrowgwoh...