Word: originated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means...
...have unintentionally confused the internationally known evangelist "Gypsy" Smith who, as you say, "for 50 years has preached and sung God all over the world," with a much younger man, Captain "Gypsy Pat" Smith, who was divorced by his wife in Bridgeport, Conn. This younger man of Gypsy origin after the War became an itinerant preacher, and, to the regret of "Gypsy" Smith, took that word as part of his public name. There is no kinship whatever between the two men. It is bad enough that his unhappy marital affairs should bring into disrepute this younger man's rather...
When the corner stone of the new Library was laid, Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain, exclaimed with fervor: "When generations of the future ask our successors about the origin and sense of this monument of which we lay the first stone, they will be answered: 'At Louvain the Germans, by burning the library, definitely broke with wisdom and with civilization...
Princeton, N. J. June 15--The Triangle Club of Princeton, the college dramatic society which dates its origin from back in the colonial period, will have a new home of its own in which to give its next year's offerings. Ground will be broken tomorrow for a new building donated to the Club by T. N. McCarter '88, at a cast...
Blue laws may have had-their origin with the Puritans in Massachusetts, but it has remained for the twentieth century and the state of New Jersey to realize their full possibilities. The town of Westwood in that state has long been oppressed by a heartless law forbidding movies on Sundays. Last Sunday came the climax of a campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made...