Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Croats and Slovenes looking carefully at the new map saw at once why King Alexander was willing to return to parliamentary government. Skillful jigsaw work had shaped the new states so as to split each of Jugoslavia's troublesome racial minorities. Six of the nine Banats contain a sizeable majority of Serbs. Especially vexed were the Croatians, noisiest and most troublesome of Jugoslavia's racial groups...
...Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statistician who hastened from the National Safety Council meeting at Chicago last week to the American Public Health Association Convention at Minneapolis. To the health officers he named 80 as the maximum age to which most people could aspire. Medical, public health and sanitary work the past half century has increased the average life of the whole population by 20 years, but has not been able to prevent senility and the deterioration of old age, has not lengthened human life appreciably...
...however pessimistic were Dr. Coffin's words, the Scots who heard him were not depressed, for the day before they had taken part in the most important Scottish ecclesiastical event in 87 years, had shown their willingness to work toward the "earth-wide fellowship" mentioned by Dr. Coffin. The event had been the reunion of the long separated Established Church (Auld Kirk) and the United Free Church, both of which originated in the stern predestinationism brought to Scotland by John Knox from Geneva's John Calvin...
...Buenos Aires. His latest excursion-to Africa, through French Sudan, the High Volta, the Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk are sold...
...wish to thank my ever-growing public for the many messages of congratulation I have received on account of my wonderful prediction of the Holy Cross-Rutgers game last Saturday. It certainly, makes one's work easier to know one is appreciated...