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Word: centredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regarding the moral problems of a surgeon he said: "We immediately come face to face with situations and circumstances which rarely subject the souls of men to more trying ordeals than those which assail the honest surgeon. Every day by his counsel, by a mere word, or even by a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon's Speech | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

Discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week centred about the mail truck hold-up at Elizabeth, N. J., in which a Government employe was killed and $300,000 worth of registered mail was stolen. Postmaster General Harry S. New arose with a battle cry: "If it takes the Army and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mail, Marines | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

New Scholars. Scholars from England, scholars from France, German scholars and scholars from Italy, on scholarships, international funds or private initiative, swelled the ranks of young America. Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass.) centred some of its attention upon a swart, stocky freshman whose name had a familiar ring and reminded them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Floating University | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Interest centred upon "Butcher" Weyler. At 87 he has outlived, but not lived down, the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97)-a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. His position among the older and potent hierarchy of Spanish officers was never successfully challenged until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Old Man's Revolution | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

In 1881 a new method of honoring Christ was devised at Lille, France. Bishop Gaston de Segur inspired his people to a public demonstration of their faith. This first public celebration was only local with relatively few adherents. But even so, the open air parading of the Host was dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bouquet | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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