Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very pleased with what I have observed about Harvard University, having discovered an upstanding group of young men with well balanced interests. You have more athletics, moreover, than are found in German universities and I attribute a fine appearance to the lack of excessive drinking prevalent in European student bodies...
...slowly dawned on the audience that in an indirect, personal but shrewdly purposeful way he was making it appear that the Democratic Nominee, because of his specific proposals in connection with water power, farm relief, prohibition and the tariff, stood in general for "a European philosophy . . ., state socialism," while he, the Republican, stood for "the American system of rugged individualism . . . diametrically opposed." It was a shrewd thing to try to do in the financial capital of the U. S. But it was a difficult speech to grasp. It seemed to overshoot the mark...
...Carnegie Institute's annual international exhibition at Pittsburgh is one of the world's most important affairs. Yet at this year's opening last week, with 253 European and 128 U. S. paintings shown, little brilliancy, little power appeared...
...held important executive positions in foreign countries. European and Asiatic, and understands conditions abroad as well as at home...
They don't follow it any better than the family. The fact is that sports reporting has become as highly specialized a business as bootlegging, and there are as many aides in the press box as in a European hotel...