Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Decrowding should be accomplished, continued Signor Mussolini, by deporting back to the countryside peasant families and individuals who have recently moved cityward. The results to be expected from "a vigorous enforcement of decrowding" are, according to Il Duce: 1) Rural begetting by deported fathers of more babes than they would beget in cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes...
...from all access to the sea; 2) Chile acquired the largest nitrate fields in the world, taxes from which now supply over half the revenues of the Chilean Treasury; and 3) Peru was deprived even of Tacna and Arica, without which strategic provinces she cannot hope to wrest back her ravished nitrate fields...
...horde filled the stadium hoping to watch the Army repel the western invasion. Biff Hoffman, the Stanford fullback, came out with his stockings down; other Stanford players were without headguards. Opposite them, but not much in the way, stood the neat, trim, speedy Army eleven with Cagle at its back. The Stanford team, which is not the best in the far West, was ludicrously superior to the Army, which has been considered the best team in-the East. One play, an antique variation of a fake "statue of liberty" never failed to gain ten yards. The members of the Army...
After all, who did kill Goliath? Elmer Davis, letting his imagination zoom, said in his novel Giant Killer that it was not David, but his sturdy nephew Joab. Stumbling on the huge carcass, David made bold to slice off the head and stagger back with it to camp, claiming a victory that...
...companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler. The hangman made a public bonfire of all books found in their possession. The gaoler, after examining them for evidence of witchcraft, clapped them into jail, where they lay five weeks. Then the religious maidens were shipped back -to England...