Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When America falls from the fiftysixth story of the Woolworth Building, there will be a bad crash," declared Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the famous Russian philosopher, now lecturing in this country...
...Amid the vast confusion of trash of every form, from cosmetics to detective story magazines, that is flooding Europe and America, the overthrow of our civilization seems imminent. We can avoid it only by following the teachings of the greatest men that have ever lived, among them, Plato. Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, the great Hindu teachers, and last and best exponent of all ideas. Jesus Christ...
...reorganize the Foreign Service. Although "Good Will" may be merely another term for attracting business, efficiency and practically are the generally accepted motives for the programme. As a result of observations made on his South American trip, Hoover has concluded that diplomatic primacy should be centered in Latin America rather than in Europe; for there, legations seem to be diminishing in their demands for unusually gifted diplomats, since policies and ententes already are firmly established...
Since God entered his life, Gipsy Smith says he has never ceased praying; and today he prays for Harvard students, that "you will became the best men America has ever known. God has put a great investment into you, and expects a big return; but if He could do so much for a no-man like myself, what...
...work on the battlefields, he received the decoration of the order of the British government and the personal thanks of the King. At the close of the war, on the request of the British government, he visited America to assist in the promotion of friendly relations between the two countries. On this trip he traveled 50,000 miles and spoke 350 times in 54 cities, in different parts of the United States...