Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great nation be robbed by material means of the vital rights which under the divine law of things belong to it. ... From Pacifism has sprung a nonfighting aspect on life. Pacifists wrote of one who died on the field of honor as if he died an unnatural death. The battlefield is for a man what motherhood is for a woman!" Seriously worried, Adolf Hitler summoned his puppet Reichstag to hear a great speech on Germany's foreign situation. Should he back down on rearmament he would lose face in Germany. Should he continue to roar he would draw...
...attack and let them advance almost in front of their lines. Then, with Paraguayans at the 20-yard mark, the Bolivian guns opened up, raking the Paraguayan lines with a terrific fire. The battle was hardly 15 minutes old before about 120 Paraguayan bodies were strewn over the battlefield. Bolivian casualties wore much lighter...
Last week like a generalissimo on the battlefield Senator Thomas was in complete command of the Senate inflationists. Into the silver debate he sent his cohorts -Louisiana's Long, Nevada's Pittman, Utah's King-to make his arguments for him while he sat back and egged them on. When the roll was called, the nation was amazed to learn that 33 Senators plumped for inflation by the coinage of silver-a clear gain of 15 votes in three months...
...doubt the patrician ladies would be delighted to see another generation of misinformed, prejudiced, plebeians, believing in a country which can do no wrong, and a noble death on the battlefield. No doubt they would like to see a curbing of those college professors whose teaching might lead to disillusionment and cynicism for a college education should contain no more than the uplifting benefits so characteristic of America's public school system Doubtless, too, this 42nd annual Continental Congress would have the fact concealed that the American Revolution was not a holy war led by the leading conservatives of their...
Clearly the policy of league formation will be settled on this battlefield, for should these relations, strained by vindictive verbal disagreements, be cemented, nothing can justly be considered beyond accomplishment in intercollegiate sporting circles. Yale News...