Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last war brought about a number of changes, for in that period India took a long stride towards becoming an industrial nation, moving from a position as the twentieth industrial country in the world to the eighth largest, and this industrial change brought with it, as well as the changes in the social status, a new desire on the part of the people of India for political freedom so that they might control their own destinies...
...circumstances upon which such traditions are based that are trouble provoking, but the predictions themselves. It is doubtful if England and America would participate in disastrous war merely because of dissension over debt settlement, oil rights, or the sovereignty of Chicago. But with Admiral Plunketts and their British prototypes allowed free rein, the eventuality becomes possible. In 1908, it has been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual...
...graduate": For the construction of The Le Baron Russell Briggs Memorial Baseball Cage 125,000.00The Harvard Fund 242,900.15Harvard Medical School in China: "for the establishment of scholarships or fellowships to be administered by the Trustees of the Peking Union Medical College..." 47,610.94The Harvard War Memorial 189,228.00International Education Board: For construction and endowment of a Southern Astronomical Observatory Station at Bloemfontein. South Africa 180,000.00Law School Endowment 695,000.00Estate of A. F. Luke: One half for the advancement of medical and surgical science 237,081.43G. A. McKinlock and Mrs. McKinlock: Additional...
...flying in the ill-fated Old Glory). Senators, high U. S. executives and business potentates, whose names she keeps secret, have sat facing her. Her outstanding predictions include the deaths of King Edward VII and Enrico Caruso, the Windsor Hotel of Manhattan fire (her first big one), the World War, the outcome of both Tunney-Dempsey fights. Because the stars pointed to great publicity, she advised the father of Lois Delander of Joliet, Ill., to send his daughter to the Atlantic City beauty contest. Miss Delander became Miss America...
...speaking of the limitations of numbers it has herein before been remarked that the great increase of engineering students following the War began to fall off a few years later. Our own School has been no exception. The number of Freshmen registered therein has diminished this year on the other hand, the number of graduate students has markedly increased. It may be remembered that when the old Lawrence Scientific School was remodeled it was organized as a Graduate School, but an inconsistency appeared between this and the provision in the will of Gordon McKay to the effect that students should...