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Word: tien (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese lost Hengyang (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), but last week they had better news than a military victory. For a bumper rice crop-in some provinces the best in 40 years-China's peasants gave thanks to Lao Tien Yieh, Old Father Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rice Up, Prices Down | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...Urumchi is full of bloody touches (like the nice flat place where the Moslems slaughtered 40,000 Chinese in cold blood) and we spent about a week there being entertained royally and well. Then we got another plane across the Tien Shan Mountains to Kuldja in the Hi Valley in a regular land of milk and honey, where we gorged ourselves on chicken and beef and white rolls and fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 17, 1944 | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Back in 1931, in the Tien Shan Mountains, a young Soviet scientist discovered a dandelion-like weed whose roots yielded a gummy juice suitable for making rubber.* Russia promoted the lowly kok-sagyz to the dignity of a cultivated crop, by 1939 her farmers had planted 62,000 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How They Did It | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...centers of population and the vigorous pressure of the outland. Beneath Sinkiang's sands and mountains lie raw mineral resources which may match even Chinese optimism. The Russians have plotted a chain of oil deposits stretching almost a thousand miles, from the Pamirs to north of the Tien Shan (mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICTORY WITHOUT ARMS | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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