Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helpless as the Bank is today, the country will be better off without change if the Bank is only "reformed" to the extent of making it a political shuttle-cock. The strike and M. Blum's program have far-reaching effects in other than the national sphere, for France is essential to the delicate balance of European peace. Let there be one misstep--in connection with the Bank of France or elsewhere--then the whole foundation of European polity and security will crumble away...
...Charles Macfie Campbell, ingoing president of the American-Psychiatric Association, toyed with the notion of lending psychiatry to statecraft when he asked: "In the sphere of politics and statesmanship, is it possible to make the present available knowledge of human nature of any practical effect? ... As a beginning one might arrange a special consultation service for legislators and statesmen, where they could get some insight into the problems of their own personality as an introduction to a proper understanding of their fellows...
...John Everett Millais, saw his curly-headed little grandson, Willie James, blowing soap bubbles in a velvet suit, induced him to pose for his portrait in return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became Sir John Millais' best known work...
Last year the U. S. sold Iran $4,339,000 worth of machinery, bought $3,635,000 worth of rugs, furs, gum, quince seeds and pistachio nuts. That this business might be picked up by Britain was curiously anticipated by the London Sphere, which three weeks ago, ran on its second page a studio portrait of the King of Kings and a caption lifted intact from the Iran Government handouts which describe that monarch as born "of a very noble Persian family ... of the purest element of the Iranian race...
...photographic board has enlarged its sphere of activity considerably and looks forward now to contributing not only to its own pages, where more and more pictures will go, but also to two or three other publications...