Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often the story of the shipping clerk who is out of it because he lacks the ambition to become at least bi-lingual in the mad search for knowledge. The primitive day of the quoter of Shelley has passed, and John may be forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain challenge to the colleges, a challenge which too probably will be answered by the snorting of the steam shovel echoed in empty classrooms...
After the Dowager Queen came Princess Helene.? Quiet and considerate, she gazed with pity at M. Bratiano for some moments, then withdrew without uttering a word...
...celebration rivaled that of Farrar's farewell performance. Flowers, confetti, streamers, tears?to Manhattanites she was "Gerry," a passionate, gay creature who always gave them their money's worth of excitement, and who'd sworn she would leave the opera when she was 40. She kept her word...
...Cleveland torch was Abraham A. Katz, scholar. No rabbi, he knows the windings of Talmudic law expertly. No philologist, he knows the Semitic dialects. Once he decided to memorize every word and its definition in Webster's 2,373-page Dictionary. He succeeded through several letters, until necessity forced him to earn a living. He became an expert accountant, then auditor. He saved money and invested it. Soon he had his competence. He could return to his books...
Every delegate of the 80 nations attending the International Radio Telegraph Conference, which closed seven weeks' work at Washington last week, who wished to do so walked into the State Department building and ceremoniously fixed his name to the conference's 26,000-word treaty. Thus ended the largest conference of nations in history. And there had been no broils...