Word: abbot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief Abbot Kocho Otani, who represents 32 million Japanese Buddhists, and his wife, younger sister of the Empress of Japan, visited Harvard and Radcliffe colleges yesterday during a tour of the United States sanctioned by General Douglas MacArthur, supreme Allied commander of Japan...
...Abbot Otani is chief of the East Hog Won-Jt Buddhist Sector of Japan, which embraces six million members...
After weeks of wrangling, peace came with the autumn to 1,200-year-old Horyuzi Temple when ancient Abbot Join Saeki at last decided to let scientists dig for a casket supposedly containing the ashes of Buddha. There was only one condition: the casket could be opened only by a picked seven-man committee acceptable to the abbot. "Tampering with an old structure," said Saeki, "is tantamount to vivisection...
After two post-war modern buildings by the University's traditional architects, Coolidge, Sheply, Bulfinch, and Abbot Harvard has turned to Groplus, and in a more general sense, to its own School of Design...
...TIME [April 25] I read this: "[Dr. C. G. Abbot] has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...