Word: okakura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bachelor London house, crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs a propaganda for Basic English that is now worldwide, numbers such potent adherents as Britain's George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, America's John Dewey, Sweden's Sven Hedin, Japan's Y. Okakura. Small, spectacled, fair-haired, with a tight-lipped mouth like the late Calvin Coolidge's. from which purrs an endless stream of speech, 45-year-old Missionary Ogden is no fanatic but a scholarly enthusiast. Though he is a preacher of simplified language, he is capable of horrendous complexities...
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