Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago they owned 35,000 acres in Livingstone County, N. Y. His grandfather, once an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York, was killed in the battle of the Wilderness. His father went into the Army at 18 and fought through the last year of the Civil War. He himself, when he got out of Yale in 1898 enlisted as a private and went into the Spanish-American...
...means! Investments in the new Russia are absolutely sound, because they are guaranteed by our Civil Code. The Harriman interests know this, and have obtained great manganese concessions in Georgia.* The production of their Georgian Manganese Co. was 63,000 metric tons last month...
Arriving at Manhattan from Cairo, one Arthur K. Woodley, civil engineer, recounted impressions gleaned during a recent visit to the Great Sphinx of Giza, as follows...
Feng v. Li. The attack launched by Super-Tuchun Feng, "The Christian Protector of Peking," upon General Li Ching-ling, the Civil Governor of Chihle (TiME, Dec. 21), continued and showed signs of developing into a notable engagement. Because of this fracas Peking was completely cut off from railroad communication with the seacoast, since the embattled forces blew up numerous bridges on the Peking-Tientsin railway...
...allocution he deplored civil unrest in Italy; expressed sorrow for the tenseness between the Church, and the governments of Chile; Argentina, Mexico and Czechoslovakia; rejoiced over better conditions in France, Poland and Bavaria; announced the extension of the jubilee to the 700th centenary of Saint Francis d'Assisi. In 1928, the Ecumenical Council, which Italy's union in 1870 caused to be suspended, will probably be resumed where it left off. At that time many questions on the reuniting of schismatics, possibly the "Old Catholics" and perhaps even some Anglicans, will come up for the consideration...