Word: european
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same article remarks that the European country where professors enjoyed best treatment in the civil service--and in all Continental countries the teacher is almost invariably a state employee--was, of all nations, Czaristic Russia. Under the "Tchin," or semimilitary hierarchy instituted by Peter the Great and in force up to the revolution, a Russian college professor had the rank and salary of a lieutenant-colonel. Evan in Germany, where a similar, if less rigid, standardization of officialdom prevailed, the professor's rating was that of a major only. --New York Tribune...
...product of these European elections lies in the seeming assurance that the people who are having cold shivers for fear of the Bolsheviks can now go to bed in safety, and expect to wake up in the morning with their houses undemolished by bombs. The world, when one comes right down to it, is a pretty safe and sane old place, after...
President Wilson, we call on you to stop immediately the American intervention in Russia. We call on you to lift what is virtually a blockade of European Russia. We call on you to stop American support of the Generals Denikin, Kolchak, and Yudenitch, and to initiate a policy of financial and economic aid to the Russian people...
...first thing to strike an European visitor" Dr. Krepelka continent, "is the excellence of the arrangements made for the comfort of the student body such as dining halls, dormitories, and lecture rooms. In Bohemia, and in fact in all of Europe there is no such care taken of the student...
...American business methods have usually been successful, and when a real effort has been made to capture a foreign market, Americans have rarely failed. For example, Germany, France and other European countries are today flooded with American razors, cash registers and farming implements of all sorts...