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Back in China the philosopher Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) had taken to writing in Pai-hua or spoken Chinese (as contrasted with written Chinese, called Wen-li). But even this could be read only by other scholars-the people at large were still illiterate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: China's Yen | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...know she is now the "globalonier," gets him out of the situation, finally wianng him from Virginia. Fields. Bill Bondix, who slugged Alan Ladd into the "Land of Nod" so brutally in "The Glass Key" is good as a comic chaffeur. With its unique plot and rollicking pace, you wen't have a dull moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

...Jayvees, who have now wen 10 of their last 11 games, including a triumph over highly rated Dean Academy, led from the start, and were ahead 24 to 14 at the end of the first half. Mike DeLeo, slick floorman, paced the team with 15 points, while forward Brewster Wolfe had 12. Coach Floyd Stahl used 12 players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CAGERS LOSE TO CORNELL 63-43 AT ITHACA; JAYVEES TRIUMPH | 3/4/1943 | See Source »

Tiny, wizened statistically-minded Economics Minister Wong Wen-hao has for years kept charts and graphs of the Northwest's natural resources. Armed with Wong's charts and the Chiangs' firsthand accounts of possibilities, a party of industrialists and engineers left on a survey trip. The Executive Yüan announced an appropriation of $100,000,000 (at the rate of $10,000,000 a year) for irrigation projects in Kansu and its jutting panhandle corridor between Mongolia and Tibet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: He Who Has Reason | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...raid wardens and the special Navy ARP platoons, as wen as the faculty and student members of the civilian defense organization at Harvard functioned efficiently in yesterday's test air raid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD CLEARS QUICKLY FOR TEST ATTACK | 7/17/1942 | See Source »

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