Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milwaukee Socialists call their coalition opponents "Reprocrats...
Thence the Amir was obliged to move to the Grand Hotel. Reason: He wished to call upon "The Prisoner of the Vatican," and no caller is received who comes directly from official premises of the Italian State, the hypothetical "jailer" of His Holiness. Amir Amanullah, although a Mohammedan, accepted amid pomp from the Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, the "Order of the Golden Spur...
...deeper virtues: an intense sincerity, unconcerned with merely literary effects, a profound, pitying pessimism, a relentless humanism that condemns the disorderly dieties who make men's lives sterile and without joy. There is also the scope, the inclusiveness that permits him to deal with large effects, to call, in the sweeping vigorous lines of The Dynasts, for Napoleon's army to appear upon the stage...
...heard the call. President Frank Johnson Goodnow, 69, resigned, giving the trustees of Johns Hopkins until July 1, 1929 to find a successor. Said he: "A younger man should be president...
...contribute to the world's literature. That they are required to lecture at all is, in many cases, an anachronism. The systematic or amphitheatre course of lectures in most subjects might with advantage be abolished and its place taken by tutorial classes, viva voc classes, or what they call in America the "Quiz...