Word: yu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought. While studying law at Leland Stanford University he made the acquaintance of some San Francisco Chinese who set his imagination to sparking on the coming Chinese Revolution. Knowing that he would never be accepted by the U.S. Army, he went to China, offered his services to Premier Kong Yu Wei, who was secretly plotting against the Dowager Empress...
...last week took its biggest single step yet toward future self-sufficiency in rubber. The Department of Agriculture okayed a $25,000,000 project to plant 45,000 acres in the Southwest with guayule (wa-yu-ley), a tough, sagebrush-like plant containing 20-22% pure rubber...
...huge Minnesota parties in Leverett or Lowell. They serve themselves drinks which taste like a cross between Minneapolis grain whiskey and Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...
...case you may be interested to know, his full name is Major General Phya Baholpolapayuhasena-pronounced Pa-yâ Pa-hol-pol-pa-yu...
...elsewhere in the world, the war has at least brought closer cooperation and a friendlier understanding between China's different Christian groups. On Easter Sunday Chungking Christians celebrated their first interdenominational service at the American Grace Community Church. Catholic Bishop Paul Yu was the preacher. In Canton, Roman Catholics, Protestants and Salvation Army officers have combined their refugee work...