Word: pointedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Archduke Albrecht. The newspaper Magyarsag at Bucharest pointed out exhaustively last week the degree of probability of the following possibilities: 1) Since Hungary is a "kingless-kingdom," the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, might be directed by Parliament to transfer the Crown to the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg who has...
Questions are Pointed
Octagonal. The University of Pennsylvania last week sounded a novel note in U. S. collegiate architecture. Designs for its new auditorium, seating 2,500, have been changed to octagonal perpendicular Gothic, of solid yet soaring effect, somewhat ecclesiastical, topped by a gossamer-thin spire which rises sharp from the pointed...
Last week a smallish, modest man, with shaven head, oval, slightly pock-marked face, long, pointed, waxed mustaches, promenaded from his Lhasa villa to the Potala, most magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its...
To judge from the cries of the politicos the Filipinos are downtrodden and all but enslaved by the brutal and rapacious Uncle Sam. The facts are that they enjoy as much or more independence than any people in Eastern Asia. Less than four per cent of the officials in the...