Word: shin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snapped by Photographer Tom Howard, with a camera strapped to his shin. To get the picture, he sat in the front row, pulled up his pants-leg and snapped the shutter while the attention of officers was fixed on the execution...
...Sobetsu, a small town in southwestern Hokkaido, was working on routine papers. Once in a while he looked out the window at his pet volcano, intermittently active Mount Usu, two miles away. On Dec. 31 he heard a mighty rumbling and the ground began to tremble. Shouting "Ji-shin!" (earthquake), he rushed outdoors and looked again at Mount Usu. The tall black volcano showed no signs of life...
...most of whose key officials are hated because they originally worked for Japan. The country is under modified martial law, and there are frequent arbitrary arrests. Since the government took over from U.S. military authorities last August, it has closed 16 newspapers and magazines. The latest was the Seoul Shin Mun, the country's largest newspaper. A government spokesman explained that Shin Mun had "reprinted only 40% of official releases in the past four months and is therefore clearly anti-government...
Paul D. Bartlett '31, professor of Chemistry; Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics; Shin Lu Chang, assistant professor of Sanitary Biology; Cocil K. Drinker. professor of Physiology; Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics; James L. Gamble '10, professor of Pediatrics; Harry L. Hansen '37, associate professor of Business Administration; John N. Hobstter, assistant professor of Engineering Science; Roland B. Holt, assistant professor of Physics; Edwin C. Kemble '17, professor of Physics; Eugene M. Landis, George Higgins Professor of Physiology; Harry R. Mimno '28, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics; J. Howard Mueller, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology...
...ever received-and a proof of TIME'S toughness-came from a group of Trinity preparatory school boys in New York City. They didn't want to reprint anything; they wanted 50 copies of TIME for their weekend soccer game. It seems that there was a shin guard shortage in town, and a sporting goods salesman had advised them to substitute magazines for the time being. They tried all shapes & sizes of them and found that TIME was just right for their purpose. They managed to rustle up enough copies for their first game, which they won with...