Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
...Book. "Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and iced champagne. ... I was born under the star of Aphrodite...
Episcopalians. Except for its close linkage to the English Government, the Church of England's organization is practically that of the Protestant Episcopalian Church in the U. S., and the Episcopalian churches of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of the British Commonwealth. The hierarchy of those churches is composed of deacons, priests and bishops. The bishops govern. No ecclesiastical authority is above them, except where, as in England there are archbishops. The archbishops, however, act somewhat as do chairmen of corporate boards of directors. They lack inherent power of command. (In the Roman Catholic Church the Government...
...individuals who are responsible for the excellence or sometimes the existence of any college, the most important are often unheralded and obscure except to trustees or faculty members. Many people who know the name of the President of the University of Chicago, most people who know the names of its leading athletes have never heard the name of Dr. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed. It belonged to a wise & able man who died last week when he was 85 years...
During the Christmas Recess all the buildings used for athletics will be open from 9 until 6 o'clock, except on December 25 and 26, and January 1 and 2, Van Wyck announced...