Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus it is that august Britannica's list of contributors for the 14th Edition includes, besides Tunney, and besides the greatest scholars on scholarly subjects, such arresting names as Lon Chaney, Edward F. Albee, Alice Foote MacDougall; Henry Ford, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, Samuel R. ("Roxy") Rothafel, Lincoln Clark Andrews (U. S. Prohibition Chief, 1925-27), George Jean Nathan, Jesse L. Lasky, George Eastman, etc., etc., etc. (Contributors are discoverable in a list printed with the introduction. Articles are only initialed...
...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...
Ever since the War the so-called "Little Entente'' countries (Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania) have been nibbling at the idea of lending real potency to their some-what nebulous union by banding together in a cast-iron military alliance. Last week an astounding article appeared at Prague in authoritative Ceske Slovo, newspaper famed as the personal organ of brilliant, dynamic Foreign Minister Dr. Edouard Benes, "Biggest Little Statesman in Europe," creator and coordinating genius of the "Little Entente...
...public is simply substituting the words 'military agreement' for 'military treaty' and continues to believe that Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia have arranged to combine their military strength in case of need...