Word: follower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan, like the U. S., was committed to a policy. Japan, like the U. S., was reluctant to follow it to war. But, as Kokumin said, Admiral Nomura's mission to "Washington had come too late: the two countries had gone too far. Japanese believed that the year 2602 would see Japan ruling one of the earth's richest dominions or returning to the way of her gods...
Patterson in the follow-up editorial: Beware lest Roosevelt lead the U. S. into another crusade like those of the Middle Ages-which crusades, said he, were really the result of boredom on the part of knights who "must have got tired from time to time of sitting around dark and drafty castles, looking at the old woman, with a hangover every morning and nothing to read except religious parchments...
...Henry Smith Leiper, American Secretary of the World Council of Churches, announced that leading churchmen from North and South America would gather in Toronto next June "to consider the task of the Church in the present world crisis . . . with special reference to the kind of world order that will follow the present struggle." The Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, is also likely to be at Toronto. Last month he set a keynote for it by convoking the Malvern Conference in England (TIME, Jan. 20), which drew up a sweeping plan for postwar society...
...They therefore have no examinations to contend with, and from an undergraduate viewpoint, work in an unorthodox manner. A few lectures, considerable reading, dinners, and many conversations supply the bulk of their time. Lectures are not as popular as might be supposed; the men have not the time to follow a subject comprehensively through a series of lectures. They prefer instead to go off on their own and dig up the ideas in which they are particularly interested...
...selecting the men for both the National and Nonresident awards, the Scholarship Committee plans to follow the methods that have proved successful in recent years. Attention will be given not only to the applicant's intellectual ability and promise but also to his personal qualities, character, and interest in worthwhile activities. The Committee is particularly interested is the well-rounded type of individual who has done more in school than merely make a good academic record...