Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh last week the world's first aluminum street car, half as heavy as steel, permitting high speed with comfort, made its first run, revived lagging public interest in trolley transportation...
...brain of an elderly gentleman who died of a heart attack while in swimming, the secret had to do with the dark, strange, warlike people, apparently neither Semitic nor Aryan, who, before Rome was founded, lived on the fertile land between the Tiber and the Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever since. They worshipped strange gods in weird cypress groves and spoke a tongue which no one, except perhaps the scholar who drowned...
...ascertainable facts might have seemed thin in any place but Central Europe. But that part of the world is as full of spies as of flies. Only last fortnight Prague's Národni Politika, commenting absently on the spy situation, observed with interest that Russian spies seemed to be unusually numerous this year...
Editor Barzini's editorial, unlike the rest of Corriere d'America, was printed in English so that all might understand. That did not prevent the non-tabloid, but tabloidesque, New York World from front-paging...
Pyrtle. Uel Walter Lamkin's term as president of the N. E. A. expired. Elected to succeed him was Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle of Lincoln, Neb., who sailed immediately following the conference to attend conventions of the World's Federation of Education Associations and the American Association of University Women in Switzerland...