Word: ting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marvel unknown to medical history. Not ultraphenomenal sextuplets, not hypersuperlative septuplets, but metaphysical octuplets were blazoned in the headlines of the Chinese Press. Seven sons and a daughter, seven felicitous stars and a comforting moon, were reported to have been born several months ago to the wife of Sam Ting, a Pearl River boatman. Only trouble with this Chinese marvel was that no one could substantiate it because Sam Ting, Mrs. Ting & family were supposed to be boating somewhere in Pearl River delta below Canton...
...population has grown from a few millions to two billion in the last 2,000 years, the world can count mathematically on only one set of octuplets being born every 690,000 years. As Physicist James Jeans declares that the Age of Man runs back 300,000 years, Mrs. Ting's marvel seemed to be some 390,000 years ahead of time...
...vote but throughout the Midwest the President was apparently slipping. For the first time Democrats began to worry about their possible losses in a nation-wide election lacking a popular national candidate to help them through. Last week's message was the nearest practical approach to put- ting Franklin D. Roosevelt personally into the field. Its high spots...
...spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with a strand of Magdalen's hair), a door bell going Ting-a-ling-a-ling, an old family servitor, a Southern belle you-alling in crinolines...
Bryn Mawr's smartest junior got her picture taken at the May Day hoop-rolling festival (see cut). She is 5 ft. tall, weighs 98 lb., has been in the U. S. since 1930. Her name is Vung-Yuin Ting. This year she won the Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial scholarship for the junior class's best scholastic record, the Charles S. Hinchman Memorial scholarship for being best of any Bryn Mawr girl in her major subject. Bryn Mawr's only Chinese student, Vung-Yuin Ting majors in chemistry, is one of the campus' friendliest...