Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board, and is drawn by the Boston artist, Carroll Bill '00. It is a pleasant introduction to the editorials and the list of achievements of famous and less famous 1900 men, contained inside. Among these notablees are William Phillips '00, Minister to Canada, Dwight F. Davis '00; Secretary of War, Mark Sullivan '00, political writer, and Walter Hampden '00, the actor, who has just been elected president of the Players' Club of New York...
...Nationalists also girded up their war loins and prepared to run with exceeding swiftness into the fray, thus to aid their ally, Feng, to distract the attention of Chang Tsung-chang and Sun Chuan-fang...
...Schmalhausen's aim than his method. His aim is de-bunking education; his method is almost non-existant. Perhaps the fact that he makes no attempt to stay near his subject is better for the world at large, because not only does Mr. Schmalhausen de-bunk education, but also War, Romanticism, Literary Criticism, Jesus of Nazareth, and conventional morality. The result of these fliers may be a more thoroughly entertaining work, but scarcely one from which any definite conclusions can be drawn as to what to do with modern education...
...surprising degree of authenticity. Now Lowell Thomas, author of "With Lawrence in Arabia," has told the amazing and almost unbelievably romantic story of Count Luckner's raids upon the Allied shipping of two oceans, and has given us a full-length portrait of this outstanding adventurer of the war...
...that those who mourn the passing of romance will find in this tale adventures compared to which many of more classic stories of battle and exploration pale to insignificance. Already it is being noised abroad that the German fleet performed far more creditable exploits during the war than we were allowed to suppose at the time. The true accounts of the Battle of Jutland and Count Luckner's narrative have gone far to explode the myth of British naval supremacy. And, as it becomes less and less treasonous to believe facts, we will come to know that the English...