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Word: yoshiro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rear White House veranda Mrs. Hoover gave a tea last week. To it went as honor guests Yoshiro Ohta and Tamio Abe, Japanese team in the Davis Cup preliminaries. The same day, headlines screamed?DREADED JAPAN INVADER AT LAST ATTACKS CAPITAL! The "invader" was not the Japanese tennis players but Japanese beetles which had just been discovered in White House foliage. Department of Agriculture experts advanced upon the pests with chemicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitations | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...players were Yoshiro Ohta, Tamio Abe, John Hennessey, John Van Ryn. Their match was Japan v. the U. S. in the semi-finals of American Zone preliminaries for the Davis Cup. The U. S. won four of the five matches, but not without Japan's Ohta defeating John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Court | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...best he could do would be to take advantage of errors. Twice Tilden made double-faults and Abe broke through his service but after the first set Tilden's long arms flailed faster and he ran the match out, 6-2, 6-3, 6-0. Another Japanese, Yoshiro Ohta, small as a bellboy but accurate as a sewing-machine, carried Hennessy to a deuce set before he went down, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Tilden and Lott ended the Davis Cup series in the west by beating Abe and Toba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Baron Yoshiro Sakatani, former Minister of Education, spoke thus in the House of Peers at Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Humiliation | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

Agriculture and Commerce: Baron Yoshiro Fujimura, a leading Japanese industrialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Cabinet | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

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