Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Austria threatened Serbia (now part of Jugoslavia) on account of the assassination, young Regent Alexander sought and received the aid of Tsar Nicholas II, at whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria...
Last week, in the two-year story of Byrd in Antarctica, came an event and an exciting episode. Probably without realizing it, Reporter Owen transformed the episode, and not the event, into a climax-a high-pitched part of the Byrd epic to which, stay-at-home editors feared, he would not soon again be able to lift the Byrd epic...
...Loeb & Co., First National Bank and National City Co. underwrote the issue. On March 1, subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the new organization will take over virtually the entire expressing business of the U. S. The bond issue culminates two years of effort on the part of U. S. railroad executives, particularly of William Benson Storey, president of the Santa...
Clifford B. Longley, Chicago born, was taken to Kalamazoo when he was old enough to talk. He talked his way successfully through grade schools and the better part of a high school course. Then he went back to Chicago, studied engineering and took a diploma. At length, he wound up in Washington with the U. S. Engineers...
...This part of Clifford Longley's life, however, came to an abrupt end. In 1909, when he was 21, Engineer Longley determined to become Lawyer Longley. He entered the University of Michigan. One year, in the middle of his law course, he set aside to attend to his finances and went to Torento to earn some money. But by 1913, he had achieved his second diploma, this time in .law, and he was ready to begin life in earnest...