Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike men majoring in the Humanities where one may dabble here and there without ill effects, the undergraduate in Math or science must elimb, rung by rung, a ladder of prerequisites, which lead to graduate courses where the brilliance of the Department's permanent staff can eventually be appreciated. Since most undergraduates never intend to carry their Math studies that far, their concern is not stimulation by genius or authority but understanding and interest created by a good teacher...
...cream, Chang heads the "Political Science Group," which wants a modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen Li-fu. This week the newspaper Ta Rung Pao reported that Chiang Kai-shek may succeed T. V. Soong as Premier, bring in Chang Chun as his deputy and administrator...
...Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang entered almost unnoticed by a side door. But among the drably clad provincials were some colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...
From the Presbyterians themselves-who, though they might have considered themselves tentatively invited, had not actually rung the Episcopal doorbell-no comment...
...name: "Palship." One day, goodhearted Bill discovered a tuberculous Polish girl in a burlesque house, got her the leading role in a movie. She played it like the great actress she had always pined to be-and then collapsed. "Bill," she gasped, "have the bells [of my home town] rung for pop-and me. . . . [And] some little girls with white paper wings ... to stand by my coffin." Then she passed away-to the heavenly studio of "the Great Producer...