Word: haras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Inouye (TIME, Feb. 22) and the Empire's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, March 14). Most famed, almost deified in Japan, are the Forty-Seven Ronin, heroes of feudal thuggery who avenged the death of their daimyo (overlord) by slaying his enemy, then committed hara-kiri themselves, and are now buried around a Tokyo temple where pious Japanese keep incense ever burning before their tombs...
Recently, that self-styled authority, Neal O'Hara, who imparts bits of unusual information with varying degrees of success through the columns of the Boston Traveler, says...
...view of the contradictory statements, someone is wrong. To whom shall this error be charged-usually reliable TIME, or occasionally erratic O'Hara...
...usual procedure: the nation starting a note exchange pays the tolls. In the recent instance: wrong, O'Hara; right, TIME. Britain and France paid...
Such is war, as General Sherman said in 1864, and as Shanghai saw last week. The Japanese commander, General Uyeda, was personally desperate. He knew he might have to commit hara-kiri if his offensive got much further behind schedule, and during the first 18 hours he changed his General Staff Headquarters three times: 1) a Japanese cotton mill; 2) a Chinese cottage; 3) Ti Futan University...