Vocabulary
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proletarian literature
bourgeois revolution
bourgeois society
Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s
new zaibatsu (formed after the Meiji period)
(looking) very bleak; having dim prospects
skim reading
reading the first character of each line of a horizontally written text (to reveal a hidden word or message); reading acrostically
siccative (drying agent)
link back to discussion group, bulletin board, etc. posting
Prussian
baby powder
(telephone) area code (non-local)
(urban) prefecture (i.e. Osaka and Kyoto)
highest ever; record-high; highest on record
year on year; on the previous year
pushing through; bulldozing; doing something by force; arm twisting
bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink
photon torpedo
squatter
full-screen display; (displaying in) full screen
full screen
to be faced with the choice between two alternatives; to be presented with two difficult choices
electricity consumption
to affect adversely; to have a negative influence (on)
purposeful; purposive; intentional
ordinate
cathedral
sonic boom
Sonic (the Hedgehog)
transonic speed
shock therapy; shock treatment
shock therapy; shock treatment
electroshock therapy
impulse turbine
impulse turbine
reaction turbine
impulsive force
nephrite
kingfisher