Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishments. The public was invited to buy lots as low as $4,000. But "background counts as much as money . . . for society, the came society that decreed the rise and success of Europe's famous watering place-Biarritz-has decided to have its new playground in Florida . . . a cosmopolitan paradise . . . impeccable social and financial powers. . . . Already steamships are plying. . . . Society does not care to wait...
Most men of God regard a call to a cosmopolitan, particularly a Manhattan, congregation as a clear summons from on high commanding them to go forth to larger things. Sometimes they see in such a call an honest opportunity for doing good on a greater scale; sometimes they go because they regard New York City as a sink of iniquity in whose cleansing their conscience impels them to assist. But recently, when Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore was asked to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he refused. Such a rejection was obviously "news"; pressmen hurried...
...cosmopolitan group of 685 students enrolled in the School, 175 colleges, American and foreign, are represented by their graduates. Harvard holds first honors with 104. Leland Stanford, 3,000 miles away, is second with 28; Dartmouth with 22 leads by a slender margin Yale and Princeton with 21 each. The University of Kansas follows with 14, then comes Williams and the University of Wisconsin with 11 each, followed by the University of Virginia, with...
...years a tide of U. S. students, recipients of the 96 scholarships established by Cecil John Rhodes, have invaded already cosmopolitan Oxford. Some two years ago Mrs. Henry P. Davison, widow of the onetime Chairman of the American Red Cross, modestly endeavored to create a reciprocal tide, established six scholarships, two each at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, for recipients to be sent (three each) from Oxford and Cambridge...
...World Federation of Education Associations spent an animated week at Edinburgh, Scotland, reaffirming their belief that the proper inclination for trees (future citizens) of all countries is toward a condition of international affairs wherein armed hostilities shall be be rendered psychologically impossible through agencies vaguely known as "cosmopolitan culture," "international understanding," "human fellowship," "world literacy...