Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What are the advantages of the new school systems over the old in Germany? The new system diminishes the caste feeling, fosters community spirit, unifies and clarifies the system of grade, vocational, and high schools, and develops a free personality. It also leads the student through one definite significant sphere of culture, instead of through a superficial, utilitarian, smattering of things, and it returns to the source of the first German culture--to the heritage of Goethe, Luther, Fichte, Duerer, and Beethoven...
...brass bell yapped; a siren hooted like a gull. Police-chief Richard 0. Zober of Passaic in a red flivver. "Disperse that crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting. A fire engine. Another. Enormous silver rods of water battered the hatless women, the men who had no overcoats. The crowd eddied, broke, swirled down the street. Policemen dashed after, clubbing backs, heads, shoulders...
...Jammu and Kashmir (see above), relapsed into a state of pious admiration for British justice as they learned of the punishment which was meted out last week to the Maharaja of Indore, a state of some 8,000 acres* in extent, conveniently situated in Central India, within the immediate sphere of British influence...
...hundred years Christian missionaries have struggled hopelessly to capture the hearts of the Calif-awed Turks. They had come, said Mr. Barton, to suspect that "the Moslem was outside the sphere of the operation of divine grace...
Excitement ran high, when, with the score standing 26-23 in favor of the University, and only two minutes more of play, Captain Smith caged the sphere once from the floor, and followed up with a perfect goal from fouls...