Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case in many European countries. No other U. S. state has such...
Last week Mayor of New York James J. Walker, punctuating his arrivals and departures with pithy comments, continued his European excursion...
Inge predicted, in the London Evening Standard, that in 2000 A. D. a federation of Latin American republics and the U. S. would constitute the two greatest world powers, European states-save possibly Russia-becoming "relatively unimportant...
...Poles. Nearer earth, but still far off, were the speculations about polar geography offered by Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown. The Arctic, he felt, will be of great importance when economic pressure sends American and European herdsmen to replace the vanishing Eskimo on the five million square miles of treeless Arctic tundra, to raise billions of sheep, reindeer, musk ox, caribou. The possibilities of such herding are already indicated by the half million reindeer that have been reared in northern Alaska from a herd of 1,300 introduced in 1902. The Antarctic will always be less important than the Arctic...
...Oppenheim likes best to write ? that is, dictate ? in the morning, but, that being his favorite time for golf, he has acquired the artificial habit of writing in the late afternoon until dinner time. He perennially roams European capitals and the U. S. picking up his cosmopolitan types and plots, chiefly in cafés and from hotel managers. His types and plots are everything. The plainest pigments of human nature are sufficient to color up the assorted shapes of the characters and show brightly as they race through skeins of intrigue...