Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passport violation had made him unfit for a Harvard platform. Three days later a mob of legionnaires and assorted thugs descended on a Detroit meeting-hall where Communist leader William Z. Foster was delivering an address. They picketed boisterously, and when the meeting ended and the crowd began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended the meeting, and went home singing the Star-Spangled Banner. The two incidents were widely separated in space and degree; yet both are part of a pattern of hysteria being woven around...
...army's part cost Spain all her colonies in America," he pointed out. He said that when the Spanish Republic was established in 1933, President Azana tried to reform the army and to cut down expenditures which were three times as much as those devoted to education. The army began to plot against the Republic, and this culminated in the Civil...
...enforced them for a generation; after that they became habitual. About 507 B.C. another persuasive political thinker, Cleisthenes, extended an Athenian device which for pure democracy has never been equalled: selection of legislators by lot from the whole list of citizens over 30. It was then that Athenians began feeling their oats...
...left him in 1931 and, like Spain, began a new chapter of life. She rejoiced with the rest of the Spanish people in the somewhat piteous end of the King "with his evil-looking nose and famous bad breath." First woman to be divorced in Spain, she promptly married Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, who was to become Chief of the Loyalist Air Force during the Civil War. Under the tepid, professorial new Republic she lived in Rome and Berlin, where her husband, as Air Attaché, learned much of value, which, however, did not interest his Government...
...teams battled to a deadlock in the first half, but after Bill Mayger's free kick in the third period gave the Crimson its first score, the Harvard scoring machine began to roll. With a spurt of excellent passing, heading, and cooperation, the MacDonald men stormed the Brown goal and opened the way for tallies by Mal Miller and George Willetts...