Search Details

Word: polese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

The Cabinet approved a most interesting diplomatic document?a "perpetual treaty of peace" with Turkey. It was explained by the Polish authorities that "perpetual treaty" is not regarded as a meaningless phrase in Poland. The reason for this statement is that Turkey, of all the nations of Europe, refused to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Perpetual Peace | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

Eli football players will know what it feels like to work behind the footlights, not on the stage but on the gridiron, when the electric lights the ready for use which have been placed around the main gridiron of Pratt Field in New Haven. The sporting world has heard of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE GOES "GHOST-BALL" ONE BETTER; LAMPS LIGHT FIELD | 10/13/1923 | See Source »

Borisov. "In Borisov, another White Russian town, . . . one could see the blackened ruins of buildings destroyed by fire during the last war with Poland. I talked with several men . . . who said that the Poles had set fire to the factories of the city, which are not yet restored, because private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Two Tales | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

The existence of organic life on Mars has again become a subject of lively speculation through the report of P. M. Ryves, a British astronomer who has been studying the red planet for the past ten years through a powerful telescope from a height of 8,000 feet on Teneriffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mars Again | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

Esperanto was invented by Dr. L. Zamenhof, a physician of Bielostok, Russia, where the clash of four races (Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews), suggested the necessity for a neutral tongue. Esperanto was first published in 1887, seven years after its predecessor, Volapük, which it has now supplanted.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Esperanto Spurned | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

First | Previous | 658 | 659 | 660 | 661 | 662 | 663 | 664 | 665 | 666 | 667 | 668 | 669 | 670 | 671 | 672 | 673 | 674 | 675 | 676 | 677 | 678 | Next | Last