Word: arai
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...Tanimura last week, depressed over the failure of a candidate he backed in a local election, Taniyuki Shimura killed himself by biting off his tongue. In crime-ridden Tokyo, 24-year-old Kan Arai threw himself under a railroad train, "because by becoming a policeman I have discovered the corruption and dishonesty of sublunary affairs. It is useless to be a policeman in such a world...
Ferdinand J. AchDorothy Stuhlberg, Lasell Oliver E. Allen Charlotte Whitman, New York William H. Appel Mary Lloyd, Boston Ryo Arai Marjorie Baldwin, Stoneleigh College Shailer Avery Elizabeth Gorman, Winchester Robert G. Axtel Catherine Lawrence, Wellesley Winslow B. Ayer Patricia Miller, Smith Edward R. Bacon Adell Voss, Swampscott Grover C. Bacon Jay Prince, Cambridge Edwin T. Baker Mary Favorite, Brimmer-May School William H. Baker Edith Alexander, Newton Stephen P. Baldwin Joy Kidder, Concord Benjamin N. Barksdale Janet Harwood, Beaver Richard S. Barrows Helen Francis, Wellesley George Bartlett Ann Folsom, Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil...
...swimming, as in running, the race which attracts most attention is the 100-metre sprint. The entrant in the 100-metre who attracted most attention at Berlin last week was handsome Peter Fick of the New York Athletic Club, world recordholder, but three wily little Japanese named Yusa, Arai and Taguchi were expected to make him do his utmost...
Splash! Yusa, Arai, Taguchi, Fick & Csik were in the pool. The wary Japanese watched Fick. Wary Fick watched the Japanese. Skinny Csik watched no one, kept on swimming. When the race was over, Fick and the Japanese stopped looking at each other, looked at Csik. He was the winner. Said Swimmer Fick to Swimmer Csik: "It's good I got third, at least." He was wrong again. In the confusion at the finish, judges had, perhaps erroneously, placed Fick sixth, behind not only Yusa, Arai and Taguchi but even German Helmuth Fischer...
...Tientsin, the port nearest to Peking, were U. S. Brigadier General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. forces of 3,950, and Allied troops bringing the total up to some 8,600, all subject in case of a general emergency to General Arai of Japan...