Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the initial shock of looking at my own tace on the cover of TIME, I appreciated and wish to thank you for your account of the situation here. It was, as I expected it would be, fearless, honest, and to the point. I am look-ing forward to the possibility of a period of quiet and research on cancer, but you may be sure that wherever I go TIME will go along with...
Nearly everyone can account for the sentimental ones to his own satisfaction, but the comic offerings will cause much scanning of postmarks. Even so, the most popular of the Vagabond's followers should have sorted and filed his Valentines before the morning is quite gone, and when he has he will find that the day is a festive occasion in the field of lectures as well...
Robert Graves the poet, in an article in T. P.'s Weekly on Lawrence of Arabia, gives an account of several quaint and unusual legends of such piquancy that we would have difficulty in matching them...
When Austria threatened Serbia (now part of Jugoslavia) on account of the assassination, young Regent Alexander sought and received the aid of Tsar Nicholas II, at whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria...
Commander Byrd himself wrote the account of this flight, making it as exciting and important as he modestly and scientifically could. But after all the polar flights that there have been and in view of the highly technical, if not nebulous, value of the Byrd observations, the aerial discovery of the Rockefeller Jr. Mountains, Cook Tennant's Peak and Hal Flood Bay did not make a sensational newspaper story. Pure science is seldom sensational, and Commander Byrd's report clung to the phrase: "Another river crossed...