Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, no one was more appreciative of the scientific achievement involved than a shy, balding Japanese physicist named Hideki Yukawa. At the time, Yukawa was 200 miles away at Japan's University of Kyoto. Later, when he arrived in this country, courteous Scientist Yukawa quietly congratulated U.S. nuclear physicists on their scientific achievement...
Actually, as his U.S. colleagues were well aware, Scientist Yukawa was entitled to some congratulations himself. Ten years earlier, when he was a 28-year-old lecturer at Japan's Osaka University, Yukawa had taken the next step beyond the theory of nuclear fission with his brilliantly propounded theory of the meson. It had taken him more than a year simply to write out the mathematical formula through which he arrived at his conclusion: that a previously unknown type of particle was a clue to the force that held the nucleus of the atom together. Two years later...
...good word with Premier Stalin himself (TIME, April 28, 1947). The Trib's new correspondent was Joseph Newman, veteran of the Japan and Argentina beats, who was already in Russia as a special correspondent for the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and just stayed...
...swallowed her cup of tea. Nor will most readers fail to wonder how F.D.R. could blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R. a clean bill of health, Big Ed forgets that on Oct. 30, 1943, Stalin had promised Cordell Hull, with no strings attached, "clearly and unequivocally that, when the Allies succeeded in defeating Germany, the Soviet Union would then join in defeating...