Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summoned for trial on charges of defamation of character of certain Greeks who had tried to oust him in order that the peace might come at Lausanne, and whom he promptly excommunicated. He is also charged with entering the country on a foreign passport. Seeing the storms on his horizon, Patriarch Metataxis turned over his ecclesiastical authority to the Holy Synod of Constantinople, and, according to British reports, has left the city. It is impossible for him, therefore, to help his fellow Patriarch in distress, the Most Rev. Tikhon. And if possible, the Turks will prevent Constantinople from becoming...
...Next year the American people will elect a President of the United States, and, to insure the complete restoration of such a government as Lincoln demanded, the people would do well to stand squarely behind the greatest exponent and champion of popular rights that has loomed upon the national horizon in the last 40 years-William Randolph Hearst." Mayor John F. Hylan of New York in the Forum. Added Mr. Hylan about Mr. Hearst: "By his battles against the so-called classes he has antagonized both the wealthy and those of high social standing, and, of course, there...
Lausanne conferences have waxed and waned and the threat of war has lowered black on the horizon more than once. The most recent cloud, which arose over the Turkish claim for reparations, has now been turned inside out by Venizeios and Ismet Pasha, and ministers at Lausanne believe that wisps of silver can be seen without great straining of the eyes. With both parties to the argument immovable in their convictions, the obstacle at first appeared difficult. Then the other members of the conference joined the argument. Greece acknowledged the validity of the claim, Turkey accepted the gift of Karaghatch...
...bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are taken into consideration, it will be seen that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River, who have demanded a 29% wage increase, to offset the cut of 22½% made in January, 1921. This suggestion of renewed labor difficulties comes rather early in the current business cycle...
Immediately after sundown any clear night there apppears in the southwestern sky near the horizon a star of the first magnitude and of the brilliancy of Aldebaran. This is Beta Ceti, formerly on the outermost reaches of the known stellar system, a second magnitude star of the constellation of the Whale. Eighty years ago it suddenly flared up to double its brightness, a fact that our astronomers have just learned (since Beta Ceti is 80 light-years away...