Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tortuous Road. For Setsuzau Kotsuji, the road to the Jewish faith was long and tortuous. As a child, in Kyoto, Japan's temple-filled ancient capital, he discovered the Bible in a secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...
...used cars, will wreck their market. If that happens, the market for new cars would be hard hit; if a motorist cannot get a fair price for his old car, he will not be eager to trade it in on a new car. On the other hand, some optimistic secondhand dealers argue that the buyer in the $2,000 class will prefer a roomy, late-model car to a compact. "The man who has been in the habit of buying a luxury car will not buy a compact," says Kansas City Salesman Henry Frick. "He'll still come...
...Grievous Suffering." When they first met on the Purdue University campus, Students Reiner and Klaus haggled over the price of a secondhand psychology textbook that Reiner wanted to sell. Says Klaus: "The argument was academic. I didn't have any money." Klaus and Reiner soon found a source. After Minneapolis-Honeywell offered Reiner a postgraduation job-and then withdrew the offer-they drove to Minneapolis, badgered the company into a cash settlement on grounds of "inconvenience and grievous mental suffering." They headed for California, opened a candy business that folded when World War II came along...
Detroit had always brushed off demands for a lower-priced small car with the remark that motorists could buy a good secondhand big car for about the same price. But the purchase price proved not the chief factor. The secondhand car usually burned more gas and oil, needed more repairs, was less economical than the foreign...
...Ernie Kovacs as a humanity-minded hospital patient who becomes so fascinated with medical mystique that he buys a secondhand stethoscope for $3 and sends Hippocrates diving for cover...