Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occupations seem to be by far the most popular. Third place is held, however, by teaching, a profession which is supposed to be on the decline. It is followed closely by engineering, with 30 candidates; but this figure is deceptive, as some of these men plan to undertake-civil engineering, others, mining engineering, and others, what not. The fifth of the most popular occupations is business, which will draw 27 from this group...
...Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops to the Union Army during the Civil War, in 1867 became a State...
Temperamental little President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China, whose waist is as slim and mind as changeable as a woman's, changed his mind every other day last week, about the civil war he is waging with the so-called "People's Army" (TIME, Nov.11...
...German Reichstag must now pass or reject the "Liberty law" which forbids German acceptance of the Young Plan, providing prison punishment for German officials, civil or military, who aid in the payment of German reparations...
Chiang has put off his going from day to day for over a month. So chaotic is the state of civil war throughout China-with disaffected "generals" constantly forming new combinations for and against the government-that the president has often not known from whence to expect attack. At one tragi-comic moment he hustled 30,000 troops aboard transports and sent them sailing around the nether edge of China to Canton, only to order them, all home again when the trouble there proved a false alarm. Last week, however, the presidential gunboat sailed with definite purpose up the broad...