Word: wen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wen-chung is China's most noted paleontologist. He made his reputation in 1929 when he discovered the skull of Sinanthropus, the Peking man, who lived half a million years ago. Recently Dr. Pei discovered some Chinese contemporaries known as "The Fire Society." Shocked and angry after a trip to his native village, he wrote about it in Tientsin's Ta Kung...
...China's scholar aristocracy and a graduate of Yale, he went to Europe for the Y.M.C.A. in World War I, was assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken language. Jimmy Yen reduced it to about 1,000 characters, and Basic Chinese was born...
...opportunity himself. With his Chinese aides and "monopoly police" he took over and expanded the Japanese system of government industrial and trade monopoly (sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, oil refining, cement). He confiscated some 500 Jap-owned factories and mines, tens of thousands of houses. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, he ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Formosans felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost sons...
...General had invited them some time ago for afternoon movies and ice cream; he would not break this date even for affairs of state. Between meetings with the press and a long list of callers, including T. V. Soong and Chou En-lai's secretary, Chang Wen-chin, the General looked in on the moppets as they disposed of a gallon or so of vanilla. That evening he drove to the Gimo's again for family dinner...
Controversial Amendment. "The Christmas Eve session began with a deceptive, commencement-like air. White-mustached, bell-voiced Wong Wen-yu, Minister of Economics, presided. Delegates busily brushed autographs, bade farewells, talked about the long trips home. The Constitution's second reading rippled toward a finish. Then up for reconsideration came a controversial amendment to Article...