Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same year President Roosevelt wrote: "I have more than once been greatly exasperated with the Kaiser myself. When I first came into the Presidency I was inclined to think that the Germans had serious designs upon South America. But I think I succeeded in impressing upon the Kaiser, quietly and unofficially and with equal courtesy and emphasis, that any violation of the Monroe Doctrine by territorial aggrandizement on his part around the Caribbean meant war, not ultimately but immediately and without delay. He has always been as nice as possible to me since...
...Ticknor, Harvard's first real candidate for an All-America berth since the days of Charlie Hubbard. The East's finest center, a tower of strength in the middle of the Harvard line, and a scrappy defense man who is in on every play, and a steadying influence to a somewhat doubtful and shaky line...
This Spanish gentleman, born in 1478, was educated at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. In his thirtieth year, he became page to their son, the Infante Don John; he was present at the siege of Granada; and while there, he saw Columbus before his trip to America...
...Haven, Conn., Nov. 19--Undergraduates of three of America's oldest and most famous universities are suspected in the theft during the Yale-Princeton game of the last remaining section of Yale's traditional fence, which for ever fifty years has served as a background for the official pictures of undergraduate Eli notables...
...returned to America a year ago to find that the work published in his absence had gained him great fame...