Word: ting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These similar names were not adopted out of perversity. All mean something, e.g., Honan is South of the (Yellow) River, Hopeh is North of the (Yellow) River, Hupeh is North of the (Tung Ting) Lake, Hunan is South of the (Tung Ting) Lake...
...little better than a narrative stencil, Di rector Busby Berkeley and his cast gave the picture enough vigor, detail and pace to make it first-rate entertainment. Good sequence : Johnnie and the Dead End kids going swimming in an irrigation tank, and getting trapped when the owner starts let ting out the water...
...blight of any educational institution is the widespread prevalence of dull, factual examination questions demanding little but an air-ting memory. Veering away from such a danger, two recent trends at Harvard have approached the problem from different directions, both pointing toward a more successful criterion than factual memory. The value of the first trend, substitution of more general exam questions attacking a broad subject from a particular angle, has been recognized by practically every department, even in the most technical sciences. On the other hand, the second trend, the use of essays, papers and short theses in place...
Speaking with Ch'ao-ting Chi on the crisis in China, Holcombe's address will come at 8 o'clock in the concluding session...
...Emaciated General Tsai Ting-kai, heroic commander of the immortal 19th Route Army, defenders of Shanghai in 1932, had arrived during the night...