Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign relations at the present time . . . have rarely been in a more happy condition. . . . Our relations with South America are on the most satisfactory basis that they have been for 25 years. On the far side of the Pacific our situation is equally satisfactory. We have no important unadjusted problem with the government of any European nation, with the exception of Russia . . . . All the issues that arose, even out of the World War, have been adjusted...
...course favors modification. Chief mover of the society's activities is the Rev. James Empringham. Born in England but naturalized a U. S. citizen he is a onetime vice president of the Anti-Saloon League of America. As an author he has published Dangerous Deceits Exposed, Intestinal Gardening...
...recent travels to every part of the Globe he has personally seen that British salesmanship and merchandizing methods overseas are still far behind the standard set by competition. (No one doubts that this was so, prior to 1914, when German salesmen were stealing British business from Siam to South America; but H. R. H. was bold indeed to charge that British salesmanship still lags behind...
...looks like a forced fraternity system and it is no wonder that the editors of the Lampy and The Crimson are voicing protest. Fraternities can exist in America because they have freedom of selection--they can choose the people they want to live with as a more or less unified group and they have no one to blame but themselves if the group is not congenial. Under the Harvard "House Plan", if a group didn't turn out to be congenial (and most of them wouldn't) only the donors could be blamed and it would be "just...
...pilgrims bought a woodcut as a memento of a saint's shrine, through Durer's illustrations to Revelations, down to its revival in the present times. It has now acquired a wide popularity in England and on the Continent; Miss Leighton hopes to introduce it more widely into America...