Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed to report ? or did I fail to see such report? ? on a larger and possibly more important meeting of young people, which occurred the second week of July in Vienna. Young workers of both sexes from many countries, 50,000 strong, met to demonstrate for world peace, for friendship among peoples, their slogan "Nie Mehr Krieg" (never more war). Taken in connection with the remark attributed to Ambassador Dawes, that war depends on the man in the street, this meeting of young socialists becomes truly significant...
...agree with R. E. Connolley, Esq., Letters, Aug. 26. Often one wonders if TIME is afraid of the Cinema business circulation curse. For instance the feeble attempt to repeat the facts when covering Cock-Eyed World in the issue...
...Official Spokesman, famed White House fiction, was one of the Coolidge institutions thrown overboard by President Hoover. Last week the Official Spokesman reappeared, but this time it was no fiction. When all the world was at war and Woodrow Wilson had a great deal to do, he used to send out his then good friend and trusted secretary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty, to tell correspondents whatever it was proper for them to know. Five times so far President Hoover has cancelled conferences with pressmen. Last week, distracted by Tariff, World Court, Arms Reduction and Republican National Committee, he sent his trusted...
...Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, last week, the Danish Grand Master gave neat proof of the efficacy of his method. In the International Grand Masters' Chess tournament, matching wits with all the great masters except two, World's Champion Dr. Alexander Alekhine and onetime World's Champion Emanuel Lasker, Nimzowitsch gained ten wins, ten draws, had only one loss. Earning 15 points he was proclaimed winner. In a dramatic two-week rally he had advanced from fifth place. Only on the next-to-last day of the four-week tournament did he achieve the lead...
...isolated for life or until cured on Culion, sombre Philippine island, were shipped last week from Brooklyn a lot of huge cans containing comedies, tragedies, newsreels, 778.000 feet of the best films made in the U. S. last year. No leper critic records the reactions of Culion citizens, called "world's kindest audience," to the canned cargo. But once a year when the films, paid for by organized charity, arrive, the Culionites sing, set off fireworks...