Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While most college men develop a natural aversion to the books they read in courses, many a way ward savant has a goodly supply of the slightly worn texts of bygone courses. In a land of publishers' plenty a student might afford to be casual about books, but in Central Europe a volume of American history or literature is almost as rare as a meal of 2000 calories...
Miss Li & Miss Liu. Loudspeaker trucks blared through the streets of Nanking and other large cities. Walls were pasted with purple and yellow posters proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao, "go to so many feasts they have stomachaches every day." But this time the Kuomintang made good its promise that seats guaranteed to minor parties should indeed go to minor parties. To teach party discipline on other matters, Kuomintang leaders cracked the whip...
Miss Li Chien-hung (TIME, Nov. 10) was one candidate who tasted both the sweet and the sour. Slim, husky-voiced Miss Li, 31, a Kuomintang member for only two years, was popular for helping families in her Nanking ward to get relief and jobs. But her rival, Miss Liu Heng-ching, a dignified veteran of 20 years in the Kuomintang, pressed the claims of long and dutiful party service. What to do? Miss Liu proposed a deal: if popular Miss Li withdrew, veteran Miss Liu would serve only half her three-year term, resign in favor of Miss...
Back from Elba. Defiantly, Miss Li campaigned as an independent candidate. But the Kuomintang cracked down: since she was still a party member, she could not run without party approval. Miss Li resigned, but the leaders refused to accept the resignation. "Illegal and undemocratic," squealed Miss Li. But when ward bosses rallied round and offered to start a write-in vote for her, she refused. "Thanks, thanks," she said, "but in the end you must vote for the party's choice...
...near full strength for the contest, with Shaw McKean ready to rejoin the first line for full duty, and with Captain Lavalle due to start in the nets. The third line, which was broken up to bolster the first two this week will skate together once more with Larry Ward at center and Bram Arnold and George Minot at the wings. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD ARMY Sears lw Kuyk Key c Norby McKean rw Cerow Washburn ld Donohoe Greeley rd Austin Lavalle g Moss