Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another excerpt: "It is a simple truth not only that individual freedom and the practice of self government are found to be most prevalent and firmly held in those communities and nations which have a highly developed system of industry and commerce as their foundation, but it is also true that only in such communities and nations can the average citizen attain the degree of individual comfort, education and culture which modern civilization is coming to demand...
...South Africa to Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations. Loud...
...Dickey's book there are astonishing stories about Mrs. Eddy. He explains how she was "fond of dress," how she manicured her nails every morning, how her house, in the sedate Boston suburb of Chestnut Hill, was fitted with an elaborate system of bells by which her "watchers" could be summoned. Mr. Dickey relates how Mrs. Eddy requested her disciples to care for the weather. "During some severe New England winters our leader would instruct her workers they must put a stop to the snow which she regarded as a manifestation of error...
Married. Dr. John A. Harriss, millionaire, traffic expert (originator of the light system for traffic control) onetime Deputy Police Commissioner, of Manhattan, secretly, two years ago to Miss Carolyn Montreux, of Manhattan; in Düsseldorf, Germany...
...from Osborne, Kan., played halfback on Mallory's eleven, proved himself a brilliant open field runner, an accurate place kicker, a good punter, and who for the last three years has coached the backfield and studied at the Medical School. Stevens will carry on Tad Jones's system which he probably understands as thoroughly as Jones. He has a contract for three years...