JAPAN: They Walk So Fast

TIME'S office boy in Tokyo has a most engaging hiss and helps his bosses by translating newspaper items. In Asahi he found this prizewinning, sixth-grade theme:

"American Army that we saw."

"The American Soldier is very good to ride a otomobile. They ride it taking a anything by single hand in triumph. And American clothes are so different from Janeses, and they are so white and fine that we cannt to see that in order to glaring. They walk so fast, because we think that their legs is wide. Whenever we see a bridge, they are sitting on it. They are likely...

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