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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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To Yale last week went Princeton's learned francophile, Dean Christian Gauss, to speak at the annual banquet of Yale's Daily News. His points: undergraduates have a sound desire for cultural improvement, are not mercenary. Another point: "... Recently . . . Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick announced that there was less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gauss v. Fosdick | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

It was President Herbert Hoover of the U. S. who opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bombshells & Concessions | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

"With this in mind I am able to declare that the American Government as a practical matter is disposed to defer to the views of the majority of those countries whose land forces constitute their chief military interest, and in the draft convention before us, to accept their ideas in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bombshells & Concessions | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

"My one desire tonight, and I am sure it is yours also ? " began Author Barrie when called upon by Major Astor, "my one desire is to be nice to Mr. Baldwin. It is not his fault that he is a Worcestershire man ? after all Shakespeare came very near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Princesses with Daggers | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

On the day in 1914 that War was declared, the German light cruiser Emden lay in the Yellow Sea, off Tsingtao, China. Capt. Karl von Muller delivered to his crew an oration, elegant yet fiery. The band played "Die Wacht am Rhein" and the Emden cleared decks to commence her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Junk-Emden | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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