Word: taiyo
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Biggest group housed in the 138-acre pink-&-white Olympic village (with eight running tracks, nine swimming pools, eight wrestling and four boxing arenas, two weight-lifting pavilions, one football field) were the 300 U. S. team-members. Next most numerous were 106 Japanese who arrived on the liner Taiyo Maru. Cheered by 1,000 Los Angeles Japanese, they refused to let deckhands carry their paraphernalia. Three days later, Los Angeles Germans cheered even more loudly for 104 of their countrymen who arrived in yachting caps, blue coats, white trousers. Of the 60 Mexican team-members, eight were Indian long...