Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voicing the sentiment of the team, Captain Russ Alien said yesterday in reference to Crowther, "one of the best guys I have ever known; a very good football coach...
First audience sat mute, wide-eyed. Most of them were seeing for the first time U. S. sailors wounded in deadly earnest, U. S. gunners firing at something besides war game targets, alien waters closing over the U. S. colors as a U. S. manofwar, however unseagoing, sank to the 180-ft. bottom of the broad Yangtze...
Died. Francis Patrick Garvan, 62, one-time U. S. Alien Property Custodian, founder (1919) of Chemical Foundation. Inc., which gained control of the U. S. post-War chemistry by paying the Government $271,850 for seized German chemical and dye patents; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Great Trek (as the Boers still call it), the hardier of the early Dutch settlers, disgruntled at the cession (1814) of the Cape Colony to the British and smarting under the alien rule, moved out with their families, their herds and their household possessions, betook themselves northward across the Orange and Vaal Rivers into the then unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon...
...present reign of terror and international lawlessness began a few years ago. It began through unjustified interference in the internal affairs of other nations or the invasion of alien territory in violations of treaties, and has now reached a stage where the very foundations of civilization are seriously threatened...