In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

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Now keep in mind this is 1944. This is the summer of 1944.

944年。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is pretty much exactly what happened to Richard Wright in 1944.

944年的遭遇。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And you could never imagine that he would be somebody that people would listen to on the radio, hour after hour, because that's how long he talked; or that when Stauffenberg tries to kill him in 1944 the Germans would pour out of the-- into the street to thank god for saving the Fuhrer.

你根本就无法想像人们会在,收音机上听他讲话,听好几个小时,因为他讲话就讲那么长时间,或者在1944年,史陶芬博格想要刺杀他的时候德国人会冲到,到大街上感谢上帝拯救他们的元首

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

When I was working in a place called Tulle, which is down here--t-u-l-l-e, not Tours, but Tulle-- I knew vaguely that there had been a massacre there in June sixth, 1944, and a lot of people had been hung.

我在一个叫蒂勒的地方工作的时候,在这里t-u-l-l-e,不是图尔是蒂勒,我大概记得,在1944年六月六号那里有个大屠杀,很多人被吊死了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选