Word: bend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British and German authorities have proclaimed as a lie that paragraph in the Treaty of Versailles which holds Germany alone responsible for the War." Thus opened the preamble to a document signed last week by 1,000,000 Germans. It is a petition requesting Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to bend every effort toward securing the establishment of an international tribunal to adjudicate War guilt...
...goes through the mill is to each of these men a repulsive, or at least uninteresting creature. Mr. Pingree believes of holders of this degree that they have "wasted three of the best years of their lives and trent their minds into as tortured positions as Buddhistic fakirs bend their bodies." Mr. Marks says of the same person that "if he wants his doctorate in English, he must Forego knowledge in order to become a specialist." One is tempted to ask in what profession today the same is not the case. The inductive method has forced specialization upon the university...
Married. Sidney Smith, 49, "Gump" cartoonist; to Mrs. Kathryn Imogene Eulette, 24, divorcee, at South Bend...
...named for Albert Erskine, president of the Studebaker Corp., speeds 60 miles an hour, nets 25 miles to the gallon. Mr. Erskine was not in Paris to see his car support the U. S. invasion of European markets. At his desk in the home of Studebaker at South Bend, Ind., he was thinking politics, writing a telegram...
...Home Towners-South Bend, Ind., censors Manhattan. By comical George M. Cohan...