Word: ourly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"On our way home [from his first meeting with the princess] I said to my cousin, 'I never realized that the Kaiser had a sister still so young.'
"It is our custom hereabouts," he wrote, "to put a shilling in the pockets of a boy's first long trousers to bring him luck and wealth. May it bring Rumania's handsome little king all the luck in the world, and any additional wealth that he may desire."
Said he: "We ask from you courage and wisdom, united with enthusiasm for scholarship. We ask for zeal in the search for truth. . . . We ask for inspiration of our young men and young women. . . . for broad sympathy, high perspective on the values of human life, and helpfulness in the problems...
These displays are undermining the very heart of our civilization. Let us save our boys and girls!" The council voted an ordinance. It affects only billboard advertising, but U. S. cigaret advertisers, remembering the famed Kansas anti-cigaret-advertisement statute, still unrepealed though not enforced, pricked up their ears, wondered...
To make war, declares Author Thompson, people are needed. The more people, the more friction. There are 1,792,000,000 people in the world. Chinese and Russians are 18% each; European Russians, 8%; U. S. citizens, 5%; Germans, 4%; Japanese and British, 3% each; French, 2%. Such a scale...