Word: shen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approval of this procedure came from such airmen as China's dapper Major General Shen Teh-hsieh, commander of Chinese "Thunderbirds" now training in Arizona. He also reported that, in order to bomb Japan and nearby shipping lanes, China now had the airfields, ground crews and pilots, needed only planes...
...read aloud in family groups": Hugh Lofting's Story of Doctor Dolittle, Margery Bianco's Street of Little Shops, Walter Brooks's To and Again, Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, Howard Pyle's Robin Hood and Wonder Clock, Arthur Chrisman's Shen of the Sea, Stephen Benét's Book of Americans...
...Shen-Nung and Captain Mease. Biggest soybean wonder is not its dizzy upward climb among U.S. crops but the late start it got. Botanists and chemists call it the world's most all-round useful crop. Yet its widely publicized new industrial uses still consume only about 2% of the U.S. crop, most of which will go for purposes known to the Chinese as far back as 2838 B.C., when it was called China's greatest legume in a materia medica written by the Emperor Shen-Nung ("The Heavenly Farmer...