Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Gibson arrived in Geneva last spring, heard Comrade Litvinov expound to the great powers his cherished scheme of disarmament on which he had labored many a year. It so happened that the Hoover plan-which Mr. Gibson had in his pocket-paralleled almost exactly in its two most important aspects the Litvinov scheme,* though no one present knew that then except Mr. Gibson. Plan in pocket, he let Litvinov talk, declined to comment in open meeting, told correspondents privately that the Soviet scheme was not worthy of comment or consideration, suggested that Comrade Litvinov had presented...
...first day of every Japanese year, while the sun is rising, ten poems are read as pompously as possible to the Son of Heaven, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess...
...write a poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing, that the set theme for Imperial Poems this year will be "KAIHEN NO IWAWO" or "ROCKS AT THE OCEAN'S FRINGE...
...usual, the sublime Emperor himself will write a tanka, but his will not be entered in the competition. Poems must be in by Dec. 16, will be judged at lightning speed by a competent corps of metrical experts, and the winning ten read at break of the New Year...
...Every year the Imperial tanka theme is moulded and painted by leading sculptors and artists as well as poetized- therefore it must always be visual...