Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep alive a sense of Buddhist unity, despite these local religious differences, 200 representatives of Asia's 150 million Buddhists (plus a few Buddhists from Europe and the U.S.) met last week in Tokyo's Nishi Honganji Temple for the second conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists. Sitting under a forest of multicolored* Buddhist banners, they opened with a special anthem...
Trying its best to cope, the conference passed resolutions calling for: 1) a ceasefire in Korea, 2) release of all Japanese war criminals, 3) repatriation of Japanese prisoners still held by the Russians, 4) the abolition of war toys throughout the world. Said Fellowship President Dr. Gunapala Malalasekera of Ceylon: "We earnestly call upon the world's leaders . . . quickly to pay heed to the teaching of Sakyamuni,* so as to attain a world of selfless concord...
...fellowship plan enables graduates of the 29 colleges to spend a year at the University working towards the degree of Master of Education, for elementary school teaching, or Master of Arts in Teaching, for secondary school teaching. The emphasis during this year will be on a well-organized apprentice or internship experience...
Thomas W. Ayers 4G, of Cambridge, received a two-year fellowship to continue his studies on Japan and China at the University...
...Moore puzzled over this but, until he got a National Research Council fellowship in 1941, he could do little about it. Then he made good progress. His tools were simple: plain water and heavy water (deuterium oxide). Basically, what Dr. Moore did was to inject 100 cc of heavy water into a volunteer, wait for it to mix thoroughly with the ordinary water in his system, and then take a blood sample. The dilution of heavy water showed the total amount of water in the body. Easy as this sounds, it was not until 1950 that the method was accurate...