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Word: handshaken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visited; how a daily newspaper was published aboard ship, edited by a onetime Governor of Kansas, Henry J. Allen, (TIME, Sept. 27). There was something pedagogically idyllic about the scene of 500 world-circling U. S. scholars kneeling and being blessed in the Vatican; bowing and being scrutinized and handshaken, later, by swart Benito Mussolini. After jotting down their notes on Rome's more important institutions, the students re-embarked for Nice, Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam, Oslo, London, home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sub Specie Aeternitatis | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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