Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belgrade the bitter struggle for political supremacy between the "national minorities"* of Jugoslavia and the "parent kingdom" of Serbia, to which they were joined after the War, was violently renewed. Former Premier Pashitch (Serbian leader of the highly reactionary "Radical" ? Government party) attempted to strike at his archenemy, Stefan Raditch (Croatian champion of the "national minorities"), by causing the ejection from the Radical party of M. Liuba Jovanovitch (leader of the "young Radicals," who secretly sympathize with Croat Raditch...
...conspicuous in history that, without Europe's congestion, America has, nevertheless, encountered more and violent race problems than her parent civilization. The Turks threatened Europe once and then degenerated into a crumbling menace and kept the status with enfeebled tenacity. But in America, the white man has ousted the red man, and introduced, enslaved and freed the black, before his encounter with the cast, an encounter which is now rather more of a rising than receding menace. In dealing with it, the pacific idealism diffused among the Caucasions and not foreign to the awakening Asiatic offers a prospect less fraught...
While the University nine is playing on the grandstand field, the Second team will take on St. Anselm's College on the Second team diamond. The scrubs opened their season at Exeter last Saturday, and showed lack of practice in their defeat at the hands of the schoolboys. Coach Parent, after a few intensive practice sessions has shifted his line-up, and he expects his charges to put up a much improved game against the Saints today...
...Representatives, two members of President Coolidge's National Advisory Commission to the .... Exposition, a school superintendent; a Rotarian, a Kiwanian and a Lion; a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jewish clergyman; an American Legion man and a Daughter of the American Revolution; a clubwoman, a Woman Voter, a Parent-Teacher representative; an adult executive each of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls...
...idea of dividing Harvard into small colleges has in its favor this very fact: that the university does possess adequate facilities for the work of each particular college, so that the small college has the advantage both of its own size and the size of its parent university...