Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another step in the cementing of a spirit of good-will and friendliness between the United States and Latin America was made when President-elect Hoover presented the new Associated Harvard Clubs scholarship to Argentina. With the tremendous growth of business and cultural relations between North and South America in the past few years. Spanish is being taught more and more in the United States, and at the same time, as Professor Haring points out, there is an increasing tendency among Latin Americans to look to us rather than to Europe for intellectual leadership. At Harvard and at most...
...TIME'S other readers it might be well to explain that Governor Pothier died about one year ago. Since his death Norman S. Case has been Rhode Island's Governor and is the Governor-elect...
...fifth member of the Committee will be chosen from among W. R. Maclaurin '29, H. H. Proctor '29, and G. A. Weller '29, who tied for sixth place in the balloting. The Committee will elect a chairman after the fifth man has been chosen...
...Hollywood version of Central Europe in June, 1914, this; no baseless fabrics of cinema walls enclose it; but the perfectly solid foundations of the presidential palace of Bolivia. And during these demonstrations: the Quaker President-elect watches the waves from the battleship carrying him on his tour of friendship; the Pan-American Conference opens with false assurances of cheer in the face of absent Argentina and the two quarrelsome neighbors; the statesmen of Europe meet at Lugano, not even trying to dissimulate the seriousness of their situation...
Three thousand miles is the ship or train distance between San Diego, Calif., and Guayaquil, Ecuador (where President-Elect Hoover was last week, see p. 10), between Manhattan and Queenstown, Ireland, between Washington and San Francisco. Trains or ships join those traveled places in a few days. Getting to the trackless Poles takes months...