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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...multitude of suggestions for improvement you receive may I add a request for more Russian and Asia Minor news, and (at the risk of being suspected of descending to the ridiculous), an occasional word as to style trend in men's apparel at Home. Doubtless my wife would appreciate the same in regard to women's fashions, but that strikes a less responsive chord...
...Libelous word omitted...
With the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 Anton Smetona, like Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, with whom he is frequently compared, began to wage a private war for Lithuanian republicanism. The signal chance for the Lithuanian minority in colossal Russia had dawned. By spoken and written word Smetona worked fearlessly for the liberation of his people from the yoke of despotism, resisting equally the Germans, who at one time threatened to end his cherished ideal of a free Lithuania...
Wiser readers, imperturbed, found a more satisfactory explanation of the unpleasant likeness between photographed dog and alleged master. They surmised (rightly) that a dull Herald Tribune copyreader or proofreader had clumsily elevated a comma after the word Hughes so that it indicated a possessive instead of an appositional phrase. Further they surmised (rightly) that Miss Charles, alert owner of the prize-winning Schnauzer, had given him a name which his appearance richly merited...
Viewpoints. To decide what the united Christian Church is or should be, it was necessary to reconcile varying interpretations of the word "church." On one hand was the Eastern Orthodox view that the Church, established and immutably fixed at seven ecumenical councils during the first eight centuries, is an objectively divine institution. An opposite view, held by Congregationalists, Methodists and other democratic communions, is that the Church originated and consists essentially in living people banded together for worship, upon whom tradition can lay no imperative bonds and from whom church organization draws its significance and changes in form. Between these...