Word: tsugu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") learned the name of his new tutor: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining of Philadelphia, Pa. Twelve-year-old* Akihito will meet Mrs. Vining some time this fall when she flies to Japan for her first visit and a year's stay. She will be given a small salary, a house, a car and servants...
...have always had as little truck with women as possible. Princes of Japan's Imperial House were traditionally removed at an early age from feminine influence-even their own mother's. But last week Emperor Hirohito looked around for an American schoolmarm to tutor twelve-year-old Tsugu-no-miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence"). Hirohito begged Dr. George D. 'Stoddard, head of the American Education Mission, to help him pick the right kind of U.S. woman...
...Tokashiki islet, near Okinawa, there was no sign of humility in Major Yoshi-tsugu Akamatsu. The cocky 26-year-old self-consciously patted his polished boots -"Cavalry officer, you know"-then offered to fight it out, said it would be glorious to die in battle. In the end, he surrendered...
...radar was paralleled by a team of British physicists under Sir Robert A. Watson-Watt. (The British first called it "radiolocation," later accepted the U.S. word "radar."*) There were also the Germans, who were known to be experimenting with radar as early as 1935; the Japs, whose physicist Hide-tsugu Yagi was working on basic shortwave studies long before the war (the U.S. Navy called its early radar antennae "yagis"); the French, who in 1936 installed on the Normandie a crude radar for detecting icebergs...