Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama Canal set new records for the year: 7,029 transits, $27,128,889 in tolls; 30,663,006 cargo tons carried. A battalion of engineers will be sent to Nicaragua "before the next dry season" to resurvey and study the proposed canal route across that country...
Hero Peat, 35, lecturer and anti-war propagandist, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, naturalized a U. S. citizen in 1922. In the War he served as a private (1914-1917), 3rd Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry, was gassed once, wounded twice, left on the battlefield 56 hours. His medals...
Appointed. Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt III of Manhattan; to command the 77th Division, U. S. A. Reserve, of which the celebrated "Lost Battalion" was a unit...
...doing so he took a liberty with the Constitution. Had Luke Lea been renominated in 1916 and again in 1922 and still again in 1928 he would today, aged 50, be seventh in Senate seniority. But there was War in 1917 and Luke Lea organized an artillery battalion, became a real Tennessee Colonel, fought with distinction, tried (and nearly succeeded) to kidnap the Kaiser. Then he plunged into publishing the Nashville Tennessean, Memphis Commercial Appeal and Evening Appeal, Knoxville Journal...
Fully armed, with bands playing, a battalion of the South Wales border regiment marched through Jerusalem. The city quieted but heavy fighting was reported in country districts. Airplanes searched for marauding Arabs, swept them with machine-gun fire. Lifta, an Arab village said to be headquarters of the attack, was bombed...