Word: kan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having just swallowed a medicine ball. He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan's most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years younger than Tama-nishiki and 100 lb. lighter, gave a miserable account of himself from the start of the ten-day round robin. Not he but Omekawa, potbellied youngster who had won nine of his ten matches, opposed undefeated Gargantuan Tama-nishiki...
...sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo is not to pin an opponent's shoulders to the mat but to: 1) make him touch ground with any part of his body other than his feet, or 2) push...
...Marion, Kan., when his truckload of 77 bales of hay caught fire, John Spachek speeded up his truck, hit all bumps, bounced off all 77 blazing bales...
...public, the Government called a witness who testified that the company had claimed to have $27,000,000 in cash in 1930 whereas actually there was less than $4,000,000. Another declared that Frank Parish and the stock-selling company he organized to sing the praises of Mo-Kan securities had used company money to manipulate the stock. That was the" real reason for Mo-Kan's downfall, said the prosecutor, who added that Frank Parish & wife had taken secret profits of $950,000 in stock manipulations...
...Paola, Kan.--It was bad enough when county authorities were asked to guard farmers grain which thieves have been raiding. Rella M. Crawford complained today that thieves have been milking his cows...