Word: slovakia
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...recognized (the late war is a painful example) that the peoples of any nation--especially agricultural nations--must have a natural and accessible outlet to the sea. Italy's uncompromising control over Fiume and the surrounding country would virtually bottle up Jugo-Slavia, Austria, Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia...
...Czecho-Slovakia," he stated, "now that we are free after centuries of oppression, we are trying to bring our educational system to the level of that found in the United States. Our government has sent several noted educators to this country to study conditions in the universities and schools and to report later to a committee formed to further education...
...Harry Krepelka of Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, who was recently appointed to a Research Fellowship in Chemistry at the University, has already arrived and is engaged in the study of atomic weights under Professor Theodore W. Richards '86. This incident is of especial significance in bringing to light the fact of a foreign technical student coming to an American University to continue the specialized training which he formerly would have completed in Germany...
...Krepelka is himself a chemist of considerable ability, having received his training while assistant to Professor Brauner, director of the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Prague, and acknowledged the leading chemist of Czecho-Slovakia...