Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Success" is the story of a prominent English politician, who, at middle age, finds himself shut in from the pleasures of the world by success. Suddenly he has a chance to recapture his first love, and his struggle to cling to romance, while success closes about him once more, forms the central interest of the play...
Like "Ol' Man River" the game of football seems to be just rolling along in spite of the death notices which it receives from the press at stated intervals. The latest, and one of the best criticisms of the sport as it now exists in the American college world comes from the pen of John R. Tunis, himself a professional sports writer...
...realization of the economic interdependency of nations, a doctrine which has grown with enormous strides in the decade since the war, was consummated yesterday at Baden-Baden when final details as to the proposed World Bank were issued. If this institution, designed primarily to facilitate execution of the Young reparations plan, works out to its theoretical conclusion, it should stand among the greatest reforms of the twentieth century...
...income of the trust, as stated in the deed, "Shall be applied annually for the maintenance of such number, of graduate scholarships in international law at the Harvard Law School as there shall be from time to time nations of the world with which the United States of America has diplomatic relations, including, however, as nations, for the purposes hereof the United States of America, the British self-governing dominions, and India, one of said scholarships to be available for a citizen or subject of each such nation...
...college ought to be the most interesting place in the world, and should not be divided into student interests and faculty requirements. If we could unify the whole college life all the studies would naturally grow out of student interests. It would not be a preparation for after-college life, but an attempt to get the full meaning of life as it goes on all around us. History, literature, and philosophy would be sought as interpretations of this life...