Word: shan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roads are crowded with thousands of refugees who are under constant aerial strafing, suffering from food and water shortage and wearied from the pace that on the Shan States front carried the Japanese forward 350 miles in two weeks, or 25 miles...
Bhupesh Guha & Sushila did not put on such a show as to erase memories of the great Uday Shan-Kar (now running his culture center in India), but their dance program provided a rare opportunity to see real Hindus doing real Hindu dances...
Important Asiatic collections received were 22,000 specimens from Indo-China, 4,500 from Yunnan, 2,000 from western China sent by the Lu-Shan Botanical Garden, 2,500 specimens from Szechuan, China, sent by Nanking University, and 12,000 specimens from Fiji. The Arboretum distributed 42,445 specimens. Many thousands of specimens for shipment to Europe were held...
...cards may be Stack-ed your way," dolefully replied his friend, Shan Twee, who graduated from Yale- in-China many ages ago, "but keep your eye on our wingback...
...overnight visit to another resort, their host's children chanted: "We've got a magnetic mine. Have you got a magnetic mine? Bet you haven't got a magnetic mine at your old Porthmerryn." And when they were raided, Daughter Ellen "enjoyed it tremendously." promised "I shan't boast about it to Lucy and Claire. It's so hard on them to have missed...