Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northward in a special car journeyed President & Mrs. Hoover, the Attorney-General Mitchells, the Secretary of Agriculture Hydes. and few more. At Philadelphia they detrained informally and proceeded to Shibe Park to see the fifth game of the world series (see p. 66). As the party entered their bunting-draped box, a victrola attached to an amplifier blared "Hail to the Chief," while the crowd cheered. When in a pandemoniac last inning rally, the Athletics won the game and series,' the President smiled, clapped politely...
Last fortnight was election week in Oberammergau, Germany. But not for a mayor, police chief or sheriff did the citizens vote. Pious and thoughtful, a committee representing all the citizens met to elect a new cast for their world-famed Passion Play in which the entire village takes part...
...months after entering were given to strict training in military lines and in the customs of West Point. We drilled, we heard lectures, we had unofficial talks by those over us, we asked questions, and gradually we learned. We were learning to take it and like it. Our little world was no longer strange...
...World War disrupted the Military Academy more seriously than any previous event in its history. The frenzied preparation that followed our entry swept aside all precedent. The Class of 1917 graduated two months ahead of time, 1918 graduated in August 1917, and 1919, 1920, and 1921 received their commissions in 1918. An unparalleled crisis in the history of West Point was experienced at this time. On November 2, 1918 the fourth Class, which had been at the Academy less than five months, was all that remained of the Corps...
...historical background of West Point is rich in colorful details, which of necessity, must be omitted from a brief record. We have but outlined the Revolutionary period, Civil War Days, and the stirring times during the World War. West Point, then, is even now a child, a child whose strength is built from the youth of the country, a child whose diet is mil--the milk of War. Has it not been said, "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace":? West Point is, and always will be, the backbone of the nation...