Word: shen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When engineers let their imaginations go-in a properly professional manner-they are apt to think about rockets, whose limit is above the sky. Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...
Army, paced by winner Richard Shen, ran away with the race for the third straight year, placing seven men in the first 17 finishers, including three out of the first four...
...TIME, Oct. 3). By unanimous vote, the hand-picked delegates chose Party Boss Mao Tse-tung as the Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang, pro-Russian boss of the Manchurian "People...
...grant $500,000 to Princeton University and California Institute of Technology for two jet propulsion centers. Top position in each will be a Goddard professorship named for Dr. Robert H. Goddard of Clark University, U.S. rocket pioneer. Cal-Tech's Goddard professor will be China-born Dr. Hsue-Shen Tsien, 38, now professor of aerodynamics at M.I.T...
...Miss Shen's tactics seemed even more cunning. Said she: "I definitely have no intention of running. How could I, who have neither money nor power, time nor leisure, compete with the others?" Miss Shen said she would rather nurse wounded soldiers. Naturally, with the soldiers' vote to think of, that sort of campaigning worried rivals...