Word: yu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collection of Chinese masters they could be sure of. The paintings dated from the 8th to the 18th Centuries; each of them had been traced all the way back and authenticated by one of the few living connoisseurs who really can: a Shanghai collector named Chang Ts'ung-yu...
...People," said the tall, amiable Chinese in his Manhattan apartment last week, "are always progressing." In 67 years, China's Feng Yu-hsiang (known to the West as the "Christian General") has progressed at a fabulous pace. These days, a good many Americans who call themselves liberals hail him as a great Chinese democrat...
...hose -but in 1930 he turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they had been late. Once, when he himself was the offender, he cracked down on himself. "Feng Yu-hsiang is ten minutes late!" he bellowed on the drill ground. "Feng Yu-hsiang must stand in the corner for ten minutes." Whereupon he turned his back on his men and stood in a corner for ten minutes...
...kept going. Last week, 22 years and more than a score of editors after Volume One, the final volume was delivered to subscribers. Russia's Bolshaya Sovietskaya Entsiklopediya was complete, and there on the title page, demoted from chief editor but still running, was the name of O. Yu. Shmidt...
...Thudwunks-or, as the Chinese call them, Celestial Whang-bongs. Our one-eyed wash coolie, Yeh, sighted an unusual bright green Thudwunk two evenings ago whizzing across the thatched roofs of the native village next door to our house on Columbia Road-or, as the Chinese call it, Pan-yu Lu-and has become, as a result, a neighborhood hero...