Word: wen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard team has suffered but one defeat this year and that in its first game with Union College. Since then it has wen two games, one over Cornell and the last one ever Springfield...
...group added to the Museum exhibition are authentic Sung dynasty portraits on silk of a rare and valuable nature The general them of the four pictures is "Wen-chi's captivity in Mongolia and her return to China" Wen-chi is the name of a Chinese lady who was captured and carried away to the North by invading Tartars in 195 A.D. She was ransomed after 12 years of exile in the desolate country of Mongolia and returned to marry the leader of the Chinese army. Her misfortunes and their happy ending became the subject of legends and poetry that...
...four paintings at the Museum fall in this category of Wen-chi pictures. They are executed with the fineness of detail of minatures and are attested as of great artistic merit by Chinese connoisseurs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century...
...determined and proceeded to study medicine in London. That great wen upon the globe was stirring with the germs of Socialism when young Ellis, preceded by a burst of beard which he never later relinquished, returned to it (1881) robust and whole in mind, body and spirit. He looked in at some meetings of the Progressive Association (forerunner of the Fabians); even compiled a Socialist hymnal omitting God's name; but lost active interest when an economic emphasis was put upon the movement. The young doctor-artist's concern was to become tactually, factually, acquainted with the physical side...
...Coolidge spent a busy day. At eleven in the morning she wen t with Mrs. Butler, wife of the Senator from Massachusetts, to attend a Beethoven program at the Library of Congress. At a quarter of one she called on President Coolidge and induced him to enroll in the Red Cross. He made out a check for $25* and she pinned a Red Cross button on his lapel. At a quarter of two she received 75 women attending a convention of the Young Men's Christian Association...