Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life. "The Enchanted Mountain" has nothing to do anymore with actions and happenings of which Buddenbrooks are as full as an old chronicle. It is purely experience of the soul, action-or not even that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd period in a man's life? But that is what the book is written around, a wonderful book, full of contemplative thought, of dialectic discussion, of wisdom. It is the ripest of the author's works, it is his most German work...
Engaged. Jean Georges Peter, son of Marc Peter, Swiss Minister to the U. S. (no relative of Peter's famed Milk Chocolate); to Helen Fairchild Mann, of Boston...
...walls of Johns Hopkins Economic Seminary, when my classmate Woodrow Wilson taught there about 1886-1887 were the words of the Swiss Economist Bluntschli: "History is past politics. Politics is present history." TIME fills both orders...
...important delegates) respectively of 6 U. S. representatives and 16 Soviet Russians. Never before has the U. S. sent a "delegation" (as distinguished from mere "observers") to a conference called by the League; and not since the Lausanne Conference of 1923, when a Soviet envoy was murdered on Swiss soil, has "Red Russia" sent delegates of any kind into Switzerland...
Prince Valerian Ossinski provided the only (mild) sensation of the week when he protested to the League that the Swiss police were guarding him against assassination so effectively that he was virtually a prisoner in his own hotel. Soon League officials persuaded the Swiss to desist. Prince Ossinski later spoke before the Conference, urging all nations to cancel their War debts, lower immigration barriers, and join with Soviet Russia in a program of universal disarmament. He spoke effectively, and some dozens of delegates crowded down near the rostrum, applauded...