Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Responsible for placing Nisei in colleges is the Quaker-inspired, interdenominational National Japanese American Student Relocation Council of Philadelphia. Clerics and educators set up the Council at the request of ex-Director Milton Stover Eisenhower (brother of the General) of the U.S. War Relocation Authority. Council finances come from private sources. Council director is white-haired, 66-year-old Carlisle V. Hibbard, who has Japanese lore (he spent a decade in Tokyo, a year in Jap-held Manchuria) and relocation experience (he worked with World War I prisoners of war). Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy sees...
...noise into modern breakfast cereals; of heart disease; in Miami. Experimenting with a test-tubeful of rice at New York's Botanical Garden in 1901, he accidentally exploded it, picked up some of the blasted grains, tasted them, found he had achieved puffed rice. Quaker Oats's interest in his product made him a fortune. He was a notable attraction at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where he blew grain out of a gunlike apparatus billed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World...
Soon began the famous retreat with Stilwell (TIME, June 1). It was a strange group-26 Americans, 13 British, 16 Chinese, two doctors, seven Quaker ambulance drivers, 19 Kachin, Karen and Burmese nurses, and an assortment of some 30 servants and refugees. They went first by motor transport into a jungle. Their path crossed elephant trails until they came to a chasm bridged only by a rope suspension which could carry nothing heavier than jeeps. (Belden had one.) General Stilwell ordered everyone to strip unnecessary paraphernalia so as to be able to walk. In the weeds a pile of elegant...
...green as the fields from which they come. They taste a little like a blade of grass. All vitamins (except D) are present, as well as the less-known grass-juice factor. Five generations of guinea pigs have been raised on nothing but Grass-Tips pellets and water. Quaker Oats Co. and American Dairies, Inc. own the laboratories...
Then the action became intense, every Crimson point being matched by a Penn marker. With Larry Davis, slight Quaker guard, contributing set shot after set shot, and Hennessey and Hyde bearing the brunt of the Crimson attack, the score mounted to 55-all with two minutes to play...