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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Sze has so quaint a name that most people picked him first out of the shuffle. Though his parents called him Chao-chi, he has been Alfred, and even "Al." since he edited The Cornellian at Cornell (circa...
...character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom was raging up and down the Amazon (circa 1900) the rubber taxes collected by the states of Para and Amazonas (see Map) made their capitals, Belem, and Manaos, two of the richest cities of their size in the world...
Thus Fred W. Ramsey became president of the National Council, assuming nominal leadership of the Y. M. C. A., which has a U. S. property value of circa $200,000,000. And, finally, he will be ready on Jan. 1, 1929, to take the General Secretaryship of the Association...
Marshal Pilsudski who is now gulping mineral water at a Rumanian spa, "The Baths of Hercules," did not repudiate the suggestion of a Crown. Poland was of truly Imperial dimensions circa 1650 in the great days of Ladislas IV and John Casimir...
...this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece of the Orient written circa...