Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prayer-strings, the Temple was made a Betsu-in and bespectacled Priest Shigefuji became a Rinban of equal rank with Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took place in honor of Buddha's 2,50311! birthday (April 8), with the two Rinbans pouring sweet water on the gold statue in commemoration of the legend that sweet rain fell when Buddha was born. Finally, at Fresno High School athletic field, members of Young Men's Buddhist Associations competed in a Japanese Olympic...
...this sweet confusion there is one thing that makes Mr. Babst fairly boil-importations of refined sugar. Up to about ten years ago, virtually all imports were raw sugar, and Mr. Babst and his fellow sugarmen refined...
Three irate, dusky, and somewhat incoherent Hawaiians were the first visitors. They brought a slap base, a big drum, and a sweet guitar but all in vain. The funnymen just wouldn't let them stay and at last report the unhappy musicians were walking toward Boston...
...hearted spirit as typical of the early Examiner in the days when young Publisher Hearst would hire a special train to get his news crew to the scene of a fire; when publisher & reporters had fabulous fun at Hearst's house in Sausalito; when famed "Annie Laurie" (Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils), first of the expert Hearst tearjerkers, wrote her classic sob stories about "Little Jim," the crippled child of a drunken prostitute, which drew $20,000 from the pockets of sympathetic Examiner readers; and when incorrigible Reporter Eddie Morphy made San Franciscans weep just as loudly over a destitute...
Yale is going to be out for a sweet revenge in this clash in the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night. On paper, Harvard should take the game comfortably, for if they won at New Haven, why shouldn't they have an easier time on the home court at the Indoor Athletic Building? But it is never easy for anyone, let alone a Harvard team, to win two straight from the Elis, and the old saying that you can't pick a favorite where Harvard meets Yale seems to hold true here...