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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, you have omitted a few facts about sumo. You speak about the liberality in allowing the contenders to delay the starting of matches. The actual fact is that ancient custom holds that all preliminary ceremonies even including breathing must be performed in absolute rhythm to prevent one participant from obtaining any undue advantage over the other in the start...
...foreigner, who has witnessed all the matches to which he could get tickets, sumo is very much the opposite of being dull. The preparatory ceremonies, consisting of certain prescribed movements of the arms and legs and purification of the ring, are even more interesting than the actual matches. Moreover, between championship bouts a modern innovation is to hold comedy bouts. The sumo men participating are specially trained comedians and acrobats. The antics they go through and the arguments they hold over the decision, when there is one, are far more amusing than the antics of U. S. wrestlers...
...although he had to make statistical corrections allowing for the fact that certain groups of the voting population were not adequately represented. He has much faith in the house-to-house polls privately taken by bookmakers who place election bets, provided he can be sure of getting the actual returns before they are doctored up to delude the betting public...
...attempt is made to give a practical idea of the workings of a political system. . . of the machinery of primary, cancus, convention, election, and legislation . . . There must be many among us who, whether or not of a voting ago, would be more than glad to gain knowledge by actual experience of the Intricacies of federal, state, and municipal politics...
...trained college graduate, I have had in mind those young men who devote their undergraduate years to such a broad fundamental preparation and then pursue one or the other, or a combination, of two courses. The one is graduate study at the university and the other is actual experience with a training emphasis. The combination is found in the internship method used, as far as the Federal Government at Washington is concerned, by the National Institute's training program. This internship training provides not only experience as a personal assistant to a leading governmental official holding a position of responsibility...