Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desk and chair. At the head of each bed is a, radio headphone. Prison-wise felons would rather go "up the river" to Sing Sing than to other New York penitentiaries. Most famed Sing Sing inmate is Charles E. Chapin, onetime city editor of the New York World, serving 20 years as a wife-killer. He has charge of the prison bird house, cares for Sing Sing canaries, parrots, lovebirds...
...Amarillo's three claims to fame are Editor Howe, Soprano Mary McCormic of the Chicago Civic Opera Company who was born there, and one of the world's few deposits of natural helium...
...efficiency of international finance has seemingly reached its maximum. The clearance principle, the economizer of money, has reached its broadest ramifications. Just as the city clearing house facilitates commercial transactions, so the World Bank expedites the use of credit in its reserve holdings...
Conceived in the real spirit of international cooperation, it introduces a new era in world relations. Harmonizing with the spirit of the League of Nations covenant, and consistent with the policy of open-handed diplomacy, this is only another, though perhaps the best, example of desire among nations to share equally the brunt of the world's problems...
...ultimate success of the experiment is dependent, not so much on the perfection of the machinery of the plan, but rather on the question as to whether the world is ripe for so comprehensive and so sweeping a sacrifice of national interests. The clause which provides that each nation may safeguard its national desires is reminiscent of the liberum veto and is attended with the same dangers. Although only the future can determine the success of the World Bank, it is certain that the plan is among the most progressive experiments...