Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty to correct your news and warn you about your editorial hot-airs. A year and a half ago you published some mistaken news or rather a rotten material about His Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi of Persia, the leader of our youth and a genius of his age. As a warning to you, I corrected your news and warned you to be careful with regard to the news concerning world figures, such as our most beloved leader...
...caused his death. Five years ago one Emil Fradin, a shrewd peasant lad, dug up a number of curiously inscribed brick and clay tablets in a field at Glozel, France. Immediately the "Glozel Finds" attracted world wide attention. French archeologists announced that they were important relics of the Stone Age, wrote monographs. British and French illustrated weeklies printed elaborate facsimiles of the Glozel tablets, compared them in importance to Egypt's Rosetta Stone, Britain's Piltdown skull. Gaston Bayle was not impressed. With his test tubes, his X-rays, his spectroscopes, he proved that the Glozel finds were...
Unchanged has been this ordered routine for 15,000,000 years, unless the Smithsonian Institute is deceived about the age of the shells in its cases. But not until the year 100 B. C. did the world take an active interest in the sex life of the oyster. The first to make a study of oyster love was one Sergius Grata, who founded an oyster farm on Italy's Lake Lucrine. The last was omnivorous General Foods Corp. which last week announced the formation of a new subsidiary. Bluepoints Co. Inc., to take over the assets of the North...
Perhaps his best-known work is "America Comes of Age," but his other writings, "England of Today," "Democracy in New Zealand," "Canada--the Two Races," "Political Picture of Western France under the Third Republic," and "Two Months in America on the Eve of the War" have created considerable interest...
...values lying beneath the chaos that prevails in China today. But with transportation and communication as far developed as they are now this Westernization cannot be long delayed, and it may be consoling to the friends of China that it may turn out for the best. For the Golden Age of the Empire is a thing of the past and if the country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture has to offer, it can only be by learning the methods by which it has been built up. China will be a happier...