Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winkle had awakened last week in Leningrad or Tokyo, or Cape Town, he would not have known that Stanford had not beaten California for 20 years, but if he had awakened in Stanford Stadium he would have known it. There were 75,000 people there to convince him, half of them quite crazy with delight. Captain Nevers, "blond behemoth" of the Stanford team, showed quite conclusively that Stanford could beat the California team-beat it 26 to 14-to the tune of incredulity and frenzy...
...Tokyo, a professor of the Imperial University explained 16 skeletons beneath the foundation of an old castle tower as probable relics of a "human pillar," such as the ancient Japanese would bury at bridgeheads or embankments to propitiate the super-god of rivers during construction projects...
...empty embassy at Tokyo and the delicate situation in the Far East are calling him as soon as he can arrange to depart from Manhattan...
Four Russian agitators, after dallying several months in China, arrived at the Tokyo railroad station. A straggly thousand Japenese workmen desired to see them, meet them, fraternize. The Tokyo police were instructed to prevent these courtesies, and, 400 strong, intervened between the visitors and the astonished workmen. Some violence and a few injuries ensued...
...Francisco. Because trouble is remembered longer than pleasure, men make calendars of their catastrophies. In Tokyo they say "since the Earthquake," in Johnstown "since the Flood," in San Francisco "since the Fire. . ." Marcel Journet, famed French basso, has sung in most of the capitals of the world and avoided most of the world's disasters, but he has not sung in Tokyo since the Quake, he has not sung in Johnstown since the Flood, nor, until last week, had he sung in San Francisco since the Fire. His great voice boomed there last week; other famed singers tuned their...