Word: mandarin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer: There is a Chinese way and an American way. In American, it is chee-ang. In Mandarin, now the official dialect of China, it is approximately John with...
...Other Mandarin pronunciations...
...countless odds and ends that have lived in this gray quarry. The Harvard-Yenching Institute, under Professor Serge possesses the world's largest collection of Chinese and Japanese books, housed below the building in stacks through which run sinister oriental alleys. Through new intensive courses in Japanese, Cantonese, and Mandarin, the H.-Y. Institute is responsible for one of Harvard's major contributions to the war effort, as grinning section men daily ask "How you say dis please?" The least of the building's occupants was the informal Harvard Peeping Tom Society, which collapsed after a few weeks last summer...
...fanciful stroke of the Blue was noted by The New Yorker: a Chinese class for Blue announcers, who have done so well at beginning the day with Buenas dias! that they are now learning how to say "Good morning" in Mandarin (tsao shun...
...waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...