Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...American youth is a great lover of sports. Contests for athletic supremacy hold his interest and he has cheers for the game loser as well as a deserving loser. Manliness is the chief desideratum and the only thing that wins his admiration. Red blood is not confined by State boundaries...
...down Boylston street to the Stadium to cheer the University eleven as it goes through a 20-minute signal practice. Two thousand men are expected to be present as this will be the last opportunity to show the team that the whole University is back of it in the great clash with the Tigers tomorrow...
Ever since the War of 1870, France has dreamed of the hour when the lost provinces should once more be numbered among her children. Now she can claim them but time has wrought great changes. The simple truth is that Alsace-Lorraine is neither German nor French now but an entity in itself. The Germans tried desperately to Prussianize it and all they succeeded in doing was to de-Frenchify it. They drove out most of the strongly French faction, to be sure, and put in German colonists in their places; but the colonists soon became as bitter under...
What the outcome will be no one can say. Most likely the protest will be ignored by the League. The strategic value to France of the districts is too great to be disregarded, and there are limits even to self-determination. Very likely if the provinces are consulted, they may be persuaded to stay with France after all. But the whole situation illustrates very well, how quickly and completely nations may undergo change, and the small part that grtaitude plays in international relations...
Roumania has emerged from the war with nearly double the territory and the population with which she entered it. The old Russian province of Bessarabia which has been actually a consenting part of the Roumanian kingdom for some months has now been legally recognized by the great powers of Europe as part of this nation...