Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palestine, Professor James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago laid the plans for exploring Armageddon, battlefield of humanity described in the Apocalypse. The site is a mounded plain on a mountain shelf overlooking the Plain of Esdraelon, near Mount Carmel. Funds were furnished by John D. Rockefeller...
...unearthing of governmental scandals is an unpleasant procedure, and often a hazardous and thankless one. In bringing to light the faults of the system of which he was a part, Colonel Mitchell is displaying a form of valor that is even greater than that of the battlefield. Facing the probable indignation of the public and the inevitable wrath of one's superiors requires firmer mettle than does the facing of cannons. Instead of being dishonorably discharged from the army, as it is threatened he will be, Colonel Mitchell should be awarded a medal for distinguished service...
...were summoned to appear before the Federal District Court, to answer charges of defacement of public property. True to the legend which remarks that fools' names, like fools' faces, have a way of achieving unfortunate notoriety, the 30 had scratched their names on a memorial on Gettysburg battlefield. The names: Mrs. C. C. Conway, W. F. Whitlock, New York City; P. I. Corpyor, Lake George, N. Y.; Fred C. Wyatt, Providence, R. I.; Donald Campbell, Washington, D. C.; Robert Mark Sr., Mrs. Robert Mark, Robert Mark Jr., Elizabeth Spangler, Julia Boyer, L. G. Warner, H. Gunderson, Annie Hurstan...
...Yorktown World Forum was formed to perpetuate the Yorktown battlefield where Lord Cornwallis surrendered. British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, speaking recently, referred to a visit to the battlefield: "I felt that all bitterness, thank God, was past between us. I felt that just as our heritage of poets and sailors, of philosophers, lawgivers and statesmen belongs to you, so the greatness of your people is a greatness of which I, as an Englishman, have a right to be proud...
...great satisfaction to us that President von Hindenburg, who is certainly a competent military expert, has stated Germany cannot think of waging war. But Germany, while keeping within the limits traced by the Versailles Treaty, must fight constantly against allowing her territory to be the battlefield of foreign armies and against permitting foreign troops to march across...