Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Would Great Britain or Russia be the better ally for Japan...
...their full value at the time they took place. And the men that had the most important part in them have almost always had to wait for a later day, if not for a later generation, to give them the recognition which their works deserved. The opening of Japan to the civilizing influences and to the commerce of the West was an event whose importance in the world's history is just beginning to be recognized, now that her achievements in war have indicated the leading position she is to take among the nations of the orient. An interesting addition...
...Townsend Harris, First American Envoy to Japan. By W. E. Griffis, D.D. Houghton and Mifflin, Boston...
...Wooley in the title role took every one by storm. The part is often looked upon as a secondary one and kept in the shadow of the others, but there was no keeping the mimic ruler of Japan in the shade last night, as seven recalls to his first song (and laugh testified...
...Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations. The Northfield Conference has been a potent factor of recent years in the promotion of Christian life and work among college men, and from it have sprung similar gatherings, at the West, at the South, in England, Germany, Scandinavia, India and Japan...