Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The 1927 prize, held over from last year, went to French Philosopher & Author Henri Bergson. Philosopher Bergson, bedridden, in Paris, remarked "I am greatly honored.'' Achievement: akinetic system of philosophy which rejects all generalizations except the concept that reality is neither more nor less than the incessant evolutions...
"Rumania stands. . . . Rumania, the country I love and have to live for, stands and stands! ... I am the link with the past-the one still on guard. . . . Rumania and I are one. No joys, no griefs can come to Rumania that are not mine!"
"When he was 20 they put him in prison and I cried much, like a mother. But then I stopped, because after all he was a man, and it was his own affair. Now I know that he did right, for he is the President of Russia. I am just...
*In Russia a scandalous admission, equivalent to remarking in the U. S.: ''I suppose I am a Bolshevik."
Charles Michael Schwab arose at the American Institute of Steel Construction, in session in Mississippi, and said: "Boys, listen to the old steel master from Bethlehem. I am getting old [66]. ... I have learned a lot since I started as a boy with Mr. Carnegie. I learned a lot about...