Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Riff, an unknown person managed to obtain interviews with Abd-el-Krim, who declared that he was ready to discuss peace terms with the French as soon as they wished. A communication to the outside world spoke of "our struggle against those who seek to act tyrannically against us and deprive us of the blessing of the enjoyment of those sacred rights without which a man cannot be described as human...
...Treasury has been swamped with requests for contributions to help build a Negro Church in Oklahoma, to help a minister trying to make a living in Michigan, to help this worthy cause, to help that worthy person. Why has it been presumed that the Treasury might give away money freely? Because the last Congress passed a law increasing Congressmen's salaries from $7,500 to $10,000 a year and some Congressmen talked of refusing the increase. The Comptroller General ruled that they had to take their monthly pay checks at the $10,000 rate, but that they might...
...Swifter to change than the customs is the scope of U. S. Education. In 1900, about 14,000 bachelor's degrees were conferred. In 1910, 22,687 degrees. In 1920, 38,552. In 1922, 47,854. In 1924, about 76,000. In 1900, the colleges graduated one person for every 5,400 of the country's population. In 1910. the ration...
...Hall of Fame membership is at present 63. No person is eligible until 25 years dead...
...says the author, "was probably ten feet high," gets only a paragraph for all his bulk, nor do Og, Gog and Magog, those hairy monsters, rate more. Noah is "accredited with having discovered the process of making wine." Joseph is referred to with consummate discretion: "Presumably being attractive of person, he suffered from a malicious and entirely unfounded accusation leveled at him by Potiphar's wife -whose passion Joseph did not share." Obadiah, says Author Allen, "is a very common name in the Scriptures and none of its bearers has any claim to particular distinction." Neither...