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Word: yen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale has an equivalent of Harvard Yen-Ching Institute, called Yale-in-China. Like Yen-Ching it is surrounded by a Communist run country but, unlike Yen-Ching, it is completely certain that it will continue to function...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Support Yale-in-China Despite Communists' Rule | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

Apparently Yale-in-China has been able to keep its branches functioning unhindered. As is the case with the Yen-Ching supported universities, the Communists have not yet curtailed any activities of the Yale-in-China schools nor have they attempted political interference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Support Yale-in-China Despite Communists' Rule | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

From an early age Christopher had a yen for the theater. At six, he appeared on the stage, in a civic pageant, and got his first critical notice. Said the local paper: "A lively and comely lad of tender years performed a hornpipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...Died. Yen Pi Shih, fiftyish, Moscow-trained former member of Communist China's Politburo; after long illness; in Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...cattle on his family's ancient acreage. A villainous, mustachioed lawyer (Louis Calhern) persuades a band of sheep raisers to homestead on Taylor's land, thus compounding two time-honored feuds: sheep v. cattle and settlers v. Indians. A pretty female lawyer (Paula Raymond) with an unrequited yen for Taylor tries for a peaceful agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Changing Frontier | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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