Word: shiung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Osaka, left Japan when he was four, got his elementary education in Vancouver schools. He made a brilliant record at the Universities of British Columbia and California, M.I.T. and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Aug. 9), was recommended to Smith by a Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will do no harm...