Word: 700th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifty thousand buyers and the agents of 10,000 dealers in everything from caviar to coke foregathered at Leipzig during the week for that city's 700th annual fair. From the U. S. alone came 1,500 buyers. At Leipzig they mingled with oleaginous Armenian lace vendors, stalwart Norwegian goat cheese merchants, shrewd Jugoslavian toy whittlers. When the week of chop, swop and barter closed, over 50% more business had been done than in the previous record year...
...allocution he deplored civil unrest in Italy; expressed sorrow for the tenseness between the Church, and the governments of Chile; Argentina, Mexico and Czechoslovakia; rejoiced over better conditions in France, Poland and Bavaria; announced the extension of the jubilee to the 700th centenary of Saint Francis d'Assisi. In 1928, the Ecumenical Council, which Italy's union in 1870 caused to be suspended, will probably be resumed where it left off. At that time many questions on the reuniting of schismatics, possibly the "Old Catholics" and perhaps even some Anglicans, will come up for the consideration...
...Eastern U. S. cities have already reached and passed their centennials. Such age as a single century, however, pales into insignificance beside that of the oldest corporation in the world -the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags A. B. This Swedish business stock company, organized in 1225, is this year celebrating its 700th anniversary...
Amid the ruins of Pompeii, the Royal University of Naples celebrated its 700th anniversary by a picturesque pageant. Ancient rites of Parthenope (the Greek Naples) were staged in the twilight, including the "lampaded-romiae," wherein beautiful young women in classic drapery ran about handing symbolically from one generation to another the flaming torch of Life and Science...