Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word; if he cannot remember the word for "mines" he snaps out "industries metallurgiques" in the French accent comprehensible to AngloSaxons. He has attended nearly every international conference since 1918. He has got big loans out of France. He has kept on reasonably friendly terms with Germany on his West and Poland on his East. He has lictored Hungary, made Austria humble. And by forming the Little Entente of Czechoslovakia, Yugo-Slavia and Rumania, he has made himself a Little Corporal among European diplomats...
...cable, which runs from the coast of Kent, in England, to Emden, on the west coast of Germany, was inaugurated by cordial messages between Sir John Denison-Pender, Chairman of the Eastern Telegraph Co., and Dr. Solmsen of the German Atlantic Telegraph...
Henry Bacon was well known as a designer of settings for sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel C. French. Among his many successes are the memorial to James McNeill Whistler in the West Point Library and the Marcus Alonzo Hanna monument at Cleveland. But his crowning achievement was the memorial to Lincoln. Here his profound knowledge of Greek architecture, coupled with his skill in adapting classic design to modern needs, produced possibly the most dignified piece of architecture in the country. Mr. Bacon was selected by the Fine Arts Commission in 1911 to design this important work...
...class elections have been postponed until February 26, and some changes have been made in the list of nominees. The name of Nathaniel Hamlen of Boston has been shifted from the list of vice-presidential nominess to that of the presidential, changing places with C. D. Coady of West Newton. There are two new nominess by petition for secretary-treasurer, C. G. T. Lundell of Dorchester, and F. P. Houck of Buffalo...
...Hossain said that cooperation must replace competition, among both individuals and nations, and that universal principles must be established instead of the ignorant egotism and narrow patriotism of today. He made a plea for a more sympathetic understanding among all nations, and particularly between the East and the West, as a necessary preliminary to world peace...