Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...omniscient housekeeper to an army, was one of the first young Chinawomen to become a Y.W.C.A. worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...
Twenty persons were killed playing football this autumn and 32 so far have been shot dead by hunters in New York State...
...indeed is the state of musical affairs when so feeble a composition as Kurt Atterberg's wins the $10,000 Symphonic prize of the Schubert Centennial Contest (TIME, Dec. 3). So did critics mourn in Manhattan last week and in many a major city in Europe-all save Ernest Newman of the London Sunday Times who refused even to take it seriously, marked great slices in it as belonging to Dvorak, Berlioz, Stravinsky, to Schubert himself, and laughed...
...Onetime U. S. Secretary of State, under President Wilson...
...inaugurated President of the University of West Virginia. He had been Dean of New York University's Washington Square College in Manhattan. From a huge commercial community, he went to a small industrial one (Morgantown). From merely purveying education (economics is his specialty), he went to set a state's educational pace...