Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed in Vienna today is the luggage shop of Herr Golodarbeiter, whose daughter and cashier is demure, brown-haired Lisl Goldarbeiter. dubbed by Galveston, Tex., judges, "Miss Universe?the Most Beautiful Girl in the World (TIME, June...
...Soviet peoples believe that we Chinese are Utopians, meaning that we have no sense of order and discipline. That is why they browbeat us. . . . Hundreds of years of degenerate culture have made the Chinese an effete race. Intellectually and spiritually Utopian and physically weak?that is what the world at large considers us. ... Fortunately Russia is in no position to con-duct extensive armed aggression against us. . . . We must wait and be prepared...
...most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he soon returned Argentine's Victorio Maria Campolo would replace him as world's champion heavyweight contender, Herr Schmeling scoffed: "Campolo is a one-day fly ... here today and gone tomorrow...
Convened in Sanders Theatre were the world's foremost physiologists. Most notable were Russia's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, "dean of the profession," 1904 Nobel Prizewinner for research on the salivary glands; Denmark's August Krogh, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for physiology of the capillaries; England's Archibald Vivian Hill, 1922 Nobel Prizewinner for research of muscular contraction; Belgium's Leon Fredericq, president of the second (1892) Congress. Present too were U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming and Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
...attentive. Speaking extemporaneously, scorning alike the notes and the patent platitudes which had more than once preceded him, he talked on a level which was as lofty as the minds who paid him heed. These men who sat before him he praised as 'beacons scattered throughout the world, shining towards each other, reflecting each others lights, far above the disputes and petty wrangles of this world...