Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over, and unmarried. It is understood that the first term is for three years, during which time a man does not marry and goes to such parts of the Orient as may be determined by the Company. At the end of three years he has an extended furlough, is permitted to visit the United States, and in many cases men on such furloughs cease to be bachelors...
...furlough," and "Rein-hart...
...bursting of the cocoon when he enters Third Class and the dignity of a yearling; the indiscriminate dubbing of plebes as Mr. Ducrot, from a scandal whispered in Keetel's French Grammar; the two months' practical camp training during July and August, accompanied by a cry of "Yea, furlough!", with results curiously like those of the Cambridge "Rein-har", though doubtless of different origin...
Kotaro Wakao, young, rich, potent Japanese businessman sported a little with Manhattan newspapermen last week. Overworked, he was in the U. S. as part of a half-year furlough from affairs.* Energetic he took his relaxation by studying U. S. factories that he had not seen a decade ago. At that time he studied at Columbia University. Courteous, he visited and thanked bankers who this spring sold $70,000,000 bonds of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. (TIME, June 18). Kotaro Wakao's father, Shohachi Wakao, is Tokyo Electric's president. Discerning international bankers...
...that church members had reached a point in working for foreign missions beyond which they should not go until they had done more efficient missionary work in their own communities. Said an Episcopal official: "What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness." Missionary C. H. Fenn, home on furlough, spoke in metaphor, saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied by the New York Herald-Tribune which mischievously remarked that only in times of physical distress were spiritual remedies...