Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Creation of a European system of gold reserve banks, as proposed by Frank A. Vanderlip, famed U. S. financier...
Then she was moved to insure the permanency of her creation by making the nation responsible for it. To generosity ($100,000 and $28,200 per annum) she had to add ingenuity, but she achieved her end. Now-for expense is no object-Europe is combed at her behest, native genius is more than ever encouraged and at least one art flourishes at the political but not the artistic U. S. capital...
Meeting. A laughing green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...
...London Daily News poll, which had thus far brought in 14,043 replies: 71% believe in a personal God, 72% in personal immortality, 75% in some form of Christianity, 63% regard the Bible as inspired, 71% voluntarily attend religious services regularly, although only 38% accept the Biblical story of creation as historical...
...gradient leading up to Mr. Wells' deepest concern, the future of mankind after its scientific emancipation. In his pseudo-scientific novels, several of which he laid in that far future, he felt the cramp of plot and character relations. So while he calls his latest creation* a novel, it stays little closer to the usual kind of thing meant by that term than did James Joyce's Ulysses...