Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This, however, is not all. Herr Mann wishes to picture modern life as well as life in general. Lengthy talks and debates upon contemporary social and philosophic problems of the day immediately before the war are carried on by various patients, in particular the Italian humanitarian, Ludovico Settembrini, the clever Jesuit, Naptha, and the aristocratic Pieter Peeperkorn. These philosophisings may be realistic in that they are mediocre but certainly they are mediocre but certainly they are tiresome reading...
...war brought further progress in the transition of the author's creative tendencies. It turned his mind to history and the affairs of state. "Frederic and the Great Coalition" is more than a fascinating historical sketch, is a psychological treatise of a historical subject, only too rare in biographical writing. The bulky volume. "The Reflections of an Unpolitical Mind" was the first attempt in Germany to wield into a unit the political ideas and aspirations of Prussia and the philosophical and artistic "Weltanschauung" of the country of "poets and dreamers...
...Widener Memorial Room a group of autographs which were sold during the Civil War by the Sanitary Commission, the Red Cross of that time, is on exhibit...
...demand for tickets this year is greater than at any time since the war. Formerly seats on the observation trains could be purchased at the New London railroad station on regatta day, but it is not expected that there will be a public sale this year...
...mightier than the sword" and thus opened up a question which has been the subject of debate for many, many-years. Of course the phrase was used in a general sense, implying that the written word has more power and influence than have the implements of war. But it is interesting to note the fact that the statement taken literally is at present well night out of date...