Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Phillips Croft 3G, of Beverly Hills, California, was awarded the first prize in the twentieth annual Topiarian Club competition, receiving the silver cup last night at a reception in Robinson Annex. His plans for the grounds of an imaginary presidential residence on Analostan Island, in the Potomac River, as required by the terms of the competition, received the unanimous vote of the four judges for first place...
...ceased to splurge because of depleted income; while the other half, with as much money as ever, is afraid to cut capers. . . . Several of my friends placed 'sell short' orders with their brokers ten days before the great market crash. And, while uninformed investors were renting twentieth-story hotel rooms for purposes of self-destruction, the gentlemen I speak of sat sipping their brandy, blowing blue perfecto smoke to the ceiling. . . ." The fortunates, he wrote, are concealing their extravagances, keeping much of their wealth abroad, "and at the first sign of any nation-wide disturbance they would...
...bullets of the enemy, one could understand why Italy rose to follow this man. His steps were guided by the inevitable fate which raised him above the common run of fears and hesitations hampering the course of ordinary men. The illusion was so real that the Vagabond's twentieth century body stirred unconsciously while his imagination hurled itself against the French, spurred by the example of Italy's Man of Destiny...
Professor Andre Morize, of the French Department, and Professor Friedrich von der Leyen, of the University of Cologne, visiting Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and literature, will speak at the annual dinner of the Boston Authors Club this evening in the Twentieth Century Club Hall...
...that the specialist does not deal with general ideas. Constant thought in the terms of one field lead him to accept unquestioningly fundamental principles. But this uncritical attitude is fatal. For it is exactly in this vagueness about fundamental principles that lie the gravest dangers to modern civilization. The twentieth century has in large measure rejected the hypotheses on which the Victorians built their philosophy, religion, and ethics, but it has determined on no course of its own. Unless the universities search into the bases of beliefs in an effort to guide the nation out of the present maze...