Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America's outstanding scholars, actuated by a laudable desire to impart their knowledge, rather than to cash in on it, frequently lecture for $100. CRUSE CARRIEL...
...scholarships, established in 1925 by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, of which Edward S. Harkness is president, are similar to the Rhodes Scholarships and were inaugurated in order to give British students an opportunity to study in America and to foster good will between the United States and Great Britain...
...always treated as a subordinate and incidental business, deserving no fixed time, no dishes, nor the setting of a table. The peasants of the East, the monks of Southern monasteries, live chiefly on bread and fruit, relished with a little wine; and Sophocles, in spite of Cambridge and America, was to the last a peasant and a monk. Such simple nutriments best fitted his constitution, for "they found their acquaintance there...
...England, two new giant dirigibles are undergoing shed trials. One of these, the R-100, is expected to be ready for a flight to North America early in June ?on the heels of the Graf Zeppelin. The R-100 has one-third greater gas capacity than the German ship and a passenger capacity of 100 as compared to the other's 25. It is to have a top speed of 82 m. p. h.. is powered by six 700 h. p. Rolls-Royce Condor Motors, is built of tubular members in such a way that its framework...
When the first volume of Capital was published (in German) it raised no great storm. It was to do its work later ? in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, Latin-America, China. It was not a guidebook for revolutionists. It was the fountainhead of a social current...