Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statesmen who framed the Versailles Peace Treaty have once more gone astray. When three subject peoples of the old Austrian Empire were removed from the rule of that country and lumped into the combined Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, it was hoped that the ends of democracy, self-determination, and all the other idealistic phrases current at the time had been served with a finality that would leave everyone happy. But unfortunately the Serbs, who happened to find themselves the uppermost of the three in the person of the king, have had so much trouble convincing the other...
...highly improbable that at Harvard any division under one Faculty could be organized into units as self-sufficient as this. No one familiar with the University would hold such a belief. The existence of the other parts of the University, each under its own Faculty, exercises too powerful an influence to permit such a system...
What the haranguing Pandit meant was coldly and succinctly put to the Subjects Committee of the Congress by skinny, self-starved Mahatma Gandhi, squatting as usual on his little dais, naked except for a loin cloth-fanatically revered...
...soul and purpose of the man stood well revealed when he utterly refused to deal or cooperate with the Indian Statutory Commission, chairmanned by Great Britain's leading Liberal barrister Sir John Simon, and now in India, charged with investigating how large a measure of self-determination can be wisely extended by Great Britain's Parliament. Thoroughly suspicious of Sir John and all his works-Pandit Nehru has said: "In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge chains upon India. . . . Personally I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains...
...Darkness" on the other. Victor calls it rightly a $15,000 record, tells purchasers on the jacket that "for more than a generation it has been the particular privilege of the Victor Company to satisfy all musical needs, and all musical tastes. Its ability to do so is self-evident in the roster of famous names that have won the distinction of 'Victor artists'. . . . The American musical scene includes, in a conspicuous place, what is known as 'concert jazz' music. Herein, at present, lie great possibilities of American contribution to musical art. Realizing these possibilities, Victor...