Word: dais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even these devices failed. Last fortnight, the Dai Nippon Press Association warned that "all antinational movements will be crushed." As long ago as last summer Tojo instructed the prefectural governors: "People should not express anxiety and dissatisfaction. . . ." On orders from Tojo, the Government banned all meetings except those it sponsored. The Minister of Agriculture decreed: "Dissatisfaction in the villages must be wiped out. ..." And the Tokyo radio, chiding those who grumbled about food hardships, declared...
...educators, with 28,000 big & little wigs as members. Ever since the fraternity wrote its constitution in 1911, restricting membership to "white males of good character," there has been wig-pulling over this clause. Two years ago the Ohio State chapter ruled that Negro George Wright and Chinese Dai Ho-chun were "white men" despite the color of their skin, admitted them as members. The chapter was promptly suspended by Phi Delta Kappa's national council...
...Japanese banks (Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan) were already exceedingly active. The Jap's New Order in Asia was potentially one of the richest economic units in the world; already the Japanese felt heady enough to discourage use of the word Japan in favor of Nippon or Dai Nippon (Great Japan...
...breeding, breathing, aging and division that make up all family chronicles produce many a memorable sequence. The agony and embarrassment of Huw's first day at a national school is exaggerated to just the proportions that a boy would recall. The drubbing that Prizefighter Dai Bando (Rhys Williams) and his craven crony (Barry Fitzgerald) administer to Huw's priggish schoolteacher is a masterpiece of comic justice. The viciously pious bigotry that is determined to make something out of the innocent relationship of Angharad and her minister is stinging social satire...