Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commercial Opportunities. Keenest disappointment is felt by business firms in European capitals visited by King Amanullah that he let practically no important contracts, and made few large purchases, except to buy some furniture for his new palace, several airplanes, and a brace of automobiles. It is not true, as has been widely stated, that Their Majesties in purchasing clothes and personal effects, carried the goods away on credit and have not yet paid. It is true that they received numerous valuable presents from firms which hoped for further orders. Thus the German Lufthansa company presented to His Majesty a seven...
...Haven Emerson of Manhattan. The strain, stress and storm of modern life is increasing the number of heart disease invalids. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, do not seem to have a bad effect on the heart, as is commonly supposed. Nor do athletics necessarily cause enlargement of the heart. European studies show that oarsmen, skiers and cyclists are the only athletes with hearts affected by their exertions. Overeating and obesity are bad only to diseased hearts.-Dr. Paul Dudley White of Boston. A serum from patients with rheumatic fever (important and insidious cause of heart disease) has shown encouraging effects...
...against each other? Granted the value of athleties and of other undergraduate occupations, why pretand that these are negatived by more studying? Even Harvard graduates have been loudest in deploring the fact that the education acquired by the average American college graduate is vastly inferior to that which his European counterpart receives. The finest athletes could still survive if they managed to spend a little more time with their books. Nor would they necessarily be any less useful as leaders and citizens in after life. The New York Times
...climatic data, however, inevitably become inaccurate," Professor Ward pointed out, "and the time has come for a new and more comprehensive book. Professor Hann is dead, but Professor Koppen, who worked with the older man for years and is at present the leading figure in the older school of European meteorologists, has undertaken the work. He has selected some 25 meteorologists to collaborate with...
According to Professor Wilson's statement, the book reveals the ratio of blacks and whites in Africa as four to one and demonstrates the possibility of future conflicts between the races as the pressure of European immigration increases. All available official documents in South Africa, the Belgian Congo, Nigeria, and the Gold Coast have been studied by Mr. Buell in the course of his investigation...