Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation for January 23 of this year, has drawn up a list of such errors with undue irony, and with fine disregard of the central idea of the discussion, which after all is not essentially invalidated by the author's unhistorical disposal of the head of Francis Bacon...
...same subject. There is evident, indeed, in these two works the difference between two methods of biographical or semi-biographical exposition. Mr. Ravage is essentially the popularizer leaving out of the picture much that goes to make a complete panorama of the times and relations in which his central characters find themselves; Count Corti is essentially the historian, realizing the important part which character and heredity play in the lives of his subjects, but seeing also the great significance which many of the contemporary political events and personalities of which Mr. Ravage takes comparatively little notice, have in forming...
...central and eastern Europe the frontiers of nationality are not clearly defined geographically. This is a point that must be kept constantly in mind in discussing the question of racial minorities, one of the most dangerous questions in European politics of the present day and quite as menacing to the cause of peace as the reparations problem or the problem of disarmament. Just because of the fact that the European nationalities merge gradually into one another, and because of the fact that there are, in various localities of eastern Europe, isolated racial islands embedded in the larger national blocks...
...great weakness of the peace settlement was not that it had not solved this question, but that it had not followed the principle of self-determination as far as possible. In the desire to weaken the defeated central powers and to strengthen the smaller or newly-created succession states considerations of strategy, of communications and of geography were allowed to play into the settlement of the frontiers, with the result that since the war there have been more submerged minorities and more irredentas than before. Add to this the fact that these minorities have become nationally more and more conscious...
...know that in 1928 San Francisco bank clearings totaled more than $11,000,000, largest west of Chicago, fifth largest in U. S. Of the 100 largest U. S. banks (1928) there were 30 in New York, 11 in Chicago, 8 in San Francisco. Home of Bank of Italy, central bank of the Giannini system. San Francisco shrugs its shoulders at cinema and citrus, argues that from the standpoint of stable commerce, of sound finance, of industrial prosperity, that the glitter of the Golden Gate is still undimmed...