Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report guessed guardedly at reasons for these changes: the War had popularized Science and overcrowded the medical profession. The expansion of industry was making Law a greater field. The ranks of the theologians were thin because more young men are seeking "liberal" careers...
...those who thought the brutal, ancient German university custom of dueling had died there came a shock last week. In William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Frazier Hunt, onetime War correspondent & Mexican sugar planter, wrote that at Berlin "only the other day" he had witnessed two German students fight, not a Schlägermensur or sport duel, wherein undergraduates belabor one another with large, blunt broadswords, but a secret, illegal Säbelmensur, oldtime insult duel, with sharp sabres...
Died. Rear-Admiral Albert Parker Niblack, 70, U. S. N. retired, director of the International Hydrographic Bureau at Monaco, Squadron Commander of U. S. battleship forces in European waters during the War; at Monte Carlo...
...industry is looking up. The price trend for gasoline during the summer months has been slightly higher, again a token contrary to overproduction, although it must be discounted because of seasonal demand. Finally there may be some additional demand for oil in China if that country goes to war with Russia, which has been supplying part of its demand for kerosene...
...worst more artificial than sophisticated, at its best moving to a degree, especially if the reader can read vicariously, Chéri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...