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to take off one's hat

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coffee

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private hospital; clinic

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personal funds; one's own money; self-funding

2

10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million

3

bank; banking institution

6

to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit

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10,000,000,000; ten billion

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to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate

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rich person

2

to be wildly different; to be on a completely different scale; to be in a different league; to be poles apart; to stand no comparison; (lit.) to be on a different order of magnitude

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facial expression; countenance; look; appearance; expression (vocal, etc.)

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scrap; piece; fag end; unimportant (person); petty (official); barely (in a role)

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politics; government

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to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable

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project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct

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Meiji period (1868-1912)

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Christian

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terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific

2

superior; excellent; brilliant; outstanding

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Uchimura Kanzou

2

youth; young man

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posterity; future life; life to come

3

relic; remains; memento

3

to be titled (e.g. a book); to be named

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lecture; address; speech

2

you (people); gentlemen; ladies and gentlemen; my friends

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enterprising man; businessman; industrialist

2

very; much; greatly; a lot of

2

money; metal

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to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck

2

to give; to do ...

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(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) very; (not) much

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hereditary disposition; temperament; nature; (arch.) body build

2

good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result

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that well-known ...

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(United States of) America; United States; US; America (land mass); the Americas

2

Carnegie

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like; as if; the same as

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sanatorium

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book; volume; this; present; main; head

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mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)

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to cheer up; to be encouraged (by); to be in high spirits

2

to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind

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eyes sparkling; with shining eyes; for one's eyes to gleam

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oneself (itself, etc.); I; me; you; by oneself (itself, etc.); interjection expressing anger or chagrin

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inside the breast of one's clothing (esp. kimono); bosom; space between one's chest and outstretched arms; (one's) reach; heart (e.g. of a mountain); bosom (e.g. of nature)

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to moisten; to wet; to profit; to enrich; to benefit

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you'll have to pay for it; the bill will come due; there's no escaping

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the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person

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