Word: yang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found remnants of Peking man in a limestone cave at Choukoutien, sounded off in the Chinese Communist newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The Japanese had indeed captured the fossils, he said: they had been shipped to Tokyo, later seized by American forces and shipped to the U.S. Last week Dr. Yang Chien-kien, head of the Chinese Institute of Anthropology at Peking, joined the chorus. Americans, he said, had stolen one of the world's paleontological treasures...
...Shapiro is concerned, Drs. Pei and Yang are taking soundings, trying to goad American scientists into disclosing, if they know, the whereabouts of the fossils. But American scientists obviously do not know. The bones may have been destroyed by ignorant Japanese soldiers, may lie at the bottom of Tientsin harbor or may still be waiting discovery in some godown. There is also a chance that they were pulverized and eaten by Chinese peasants, since ground "dragon's bones" (fossils) have made strong medicine in China for centuries. In one form or another, the remains of Peking man are probably...
...visiting director of a London rubber firm, his plantation manager and nine policemen who were in his heavily guarded escort were ambushed and killed. Same day the Communists sabotaged the Singapore train 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur, killed five passengers and injured 20. Aboard the train was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, Malayan ruler of Negri Sembilan. Said His Highness: "It was a terrifying experience." Loyal Negri Sembilan Malays, hitherto neutral, began honing their parangs (long knives) for anti-Communist action. The planters, under a new British general, Sir Robert Lockhart, are punching hard at the Communists. British score (since...
...Seung Yang, two visiting students from South Kores, will speak on "Korea's Future" at a Political Laboratory meeting sponsored by the United Nations Council tonight at 8 p.m. in the Winthrop Senior Common Room...
...whitewings of Seoul (old women with brushwood brooms) swept the capital's main streets early one morning last week. Later, the tong-yang (block leaders) hustled out 100,000 residents to shout mansei and wave proper flags in welcome for UNCURK, the United Nations Commission on Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea...