Word: meiji
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo's Meiji Shrine Pool, under the eyes of Princess Takamatsu, Princes Takamatsu and Sumi, Japanese Swimmer Hiroshi Negami finished an 800-metre free-style race in 10:02.4, a world's record, while his team was beating a touring team of five U. S. champions...
Impassive as wax, His Majesty gave ear. There had been another of those patriotic assassinations. The respected Army swordsmanship instructor, Lieut-Colonel Aizawa, after praying devoutly at the Imperial Family's Meiji Shrine, had called on the chief executive officer of the Japanese Army, Lieut-General Tetsuzan Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, and proceeded to run him expertly through the vitals...
Japan's late, illustrious Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), who extracted his realm from Medievalism and started the buzz-saw of Progress, was prayerfully approached last week by 5,000 neat, respectful Tokyo policemen at the Meiji Shrine They hoped he would help them thwart the assassination of an especially honored guest of Japan's Divine Emperor bespectacled young Son-of-Heaven Hirohito With 15 days of such pomp as even the Orient has seldom seen, Japan was giving a $1,000,000 coming-out party for her shy puppet Emperor of Manchukuo His Majesty Kang...
...University alumni (there are no professional baseballers in Japan) batted for the Empire, after Marquis Okuma, president of the Japan Baseball League, pitched the first ball. When the Babe hit only a single, though his team won 17-to-1, Japanese sportsmen politely said that it must be because Meiji Stadium is so very, very large and their fielders had stood so very, very far back to catch all the Bambino's terrific deliveries. Next day Mr. Ruth again hit only a single. This was harder to explain, for Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx both hit homers, and Earl Averill...
...Meiji 10, Harvard...