Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beard, it is none of your confounded business. Did I or any other Persian ever tell you that you look like a monkey; no, because we do not care how you look. Did we ever say that your ex-president has a hooklike nose, or that your ambassador to Great Britain is usually conspicuous by his nose? No, that is none of our business; these matters though small, yet they create an international ill-feeling...
...Officers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, busy in an international conference at Indianapolis did not open their mail for three days. When they did, they were excited. There was a letter from President Hoover, in which he regretted too great reliance on the Prohibition law to enforce abstinence, urged extended education in the moral, physical, economic benefits of temperance...
...useful and honorable work along standard lines. But it does not encourage individuality. It helps and encourages students to follow the broad cement roads to quick and apparent forms of success, but it does not guide them along the side roads and bypaths which often lead to great and unexpected discoveries...
Andre Siegfried, member of the French foreign office, will be the guest of the Harvard Liberal Club at dinner next Tuesday evening, and will speak afterwards on "America and Europe." He has gained great fame as one of Europe's foremost Socialists, and in the position as member of the French foreign office, he has had a great opportunity to observe both the subjects of his speech...
...country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture has to offer, it can only be by learning the methods by which it has been built up. China will be a happier land when it has succeeded in taking its place among the great nations in the world today, and Harvard is fortunate to be represented among the American universities that are helping to bring this about...