Word: wa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mbiyu Wa Koinange, which means Mbiyu, son of Koinange, is the son of Koinange Wa Mbiyu, which means Koinange, son of Mbiyu. In Bantu "koinange" means "dancer," Koinange Wa Mbiyu, chief of 800,000 Kikuyu tribesmen in British East Africa's Kenya Colony, was a good dancer in his youth but he never learned to read & write. Last week Mbiyu Wa Koinange, who will soon succeed his aged father as chief of the Kikuyus, got his A. B. degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio...
Bushido is "The Way of the Warrior" and just now that is Japan's way-due in no small measure to Lieut.-General Araki. Comparatively obscure 14 months ago, he was not listed in the Japan Year Book's Ano Hito Wa Tare Desuka ("Who's Who")* when Japan's doddering "Old Fox," Premier Ki Inukai, 77, made him War Minister (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). Since then, in Lieut.-General Araki's opinion, events have followed the Divine pattern. Last week the Japanese Army, symbolizing the Imperial Sword, was striking the last blows needed...
...notice of the Niles abduction wa taken by the world-at-large. It would scarcely have attracted the little national attention it did had not a fabulous melodrama unfolded the night before in central New Jersey...
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Three times LoBagola returned to his Scotch family. His native village became more and more foreign .to him: finally he left it altogether, came to the U. S. With no sense of the value of money, he wa usually broke, in England was once jaile< for theft. He worked in an automobil factory, in vaudeville, as a bootblack. During the War he served in the British army in Palestine, Egypt...