Word: yamada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shinto priests went to the mountains, selected a grove of hinoki trees, a variety of cedar. The following spring lumbermen in spotless white jackets, chosen for their piety and good character, felled the trees, floated them down the river to Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...
Emperor Hirohito sat gloomily in the Imperial Palace at Tokyo thinking of a name for his new baby girl. Imperial priests from the Imperial Sanctuary awaited in the Imperial Palace for the Imperial word; for they were to go to the Imperial Shrine of Ife at Yamada, 200 miles from Tokyo, and report her name to the Imperial Ancestors...
...following day, Sunday, the pair visited the Emperor and Empress at Namazu, went to Iso to announce their wedding to the great Emperor Jimmu (said to have ascended the throne in the year 660 B. C.) and to Yamada to do the same to the Emperor Momoyama...
...Gray Herb. Celtic 1, Sever 20 Chemistry 21, Sever 8 Economics 7a, Sever 20 Economics 12, Sever 13 Economics 31, Sever 30 Engineering 400, Pierce 304 English 2: von Adelinng to Ehrensperger (incl.), Harvard 2 Emmons to Henderson (incl.), Harvard 3 Hennessey to Reilly (incl.), Harvard 5 Reynolds to Yamada (incl.), Harvard 6 French 9: Allen to Lovett (incl.), Sever 23 McAdams to Wiley (incl.) Sever 24 Geography I, Sever...
...McCarthy (incl.), Sever 7MacDuffle to Young (incl.), Sever 11Botany 7, Gray Herb.Celtic 1, Sever 20Chemistry 21, Sever 8Economics 7a, Sever 20Economics 12, Sever 13Economics 31, Sever 30Engineering 400, Pierce 304English 2:von Adelung to Ehrensperger (incl.), Harvard 2Emmons to Henderson (incl.), Harvard 3Hennessey to Reilly (incl.), Harvard 5Reynolds to Yamada (incl.), Harvard 6French 9:Allen to Lovett (incl.), Sever 23McAdams to Wiley (incl.), Sever 24Geography 1, Sever 35Geology 13, Sever 24German B, Sever AGerman 1a, II, Sever 17German 2a, II, Sever 29German 3, Sever 29Greek B, I, Sever 18History 13a, Pierce 304History 17, Sever 36Latin 1, Sever 18Latin 8, Sever...