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Word: belli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causal relation by stating that as a result of their status "a large part of the student body feel superior to and indifferent about Cambridge. He thinks its inhabitants are not only poor and ignorant but also unimportant." The townies sense and resent this attitude and hence the causa belli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAIR AND WARMER | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...less than 1,000,000 men, the most up-to-date, although far from the largest, army in Europe. This was mobilization-not necessarily for war-but definitely mobilization on a scale nearly comparable to the Imperial Russian mobilization of 1914 which Kaiser Wilhelm saw as a casus belli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Million Mobilized | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...subject, in short, is seating. Where do we sit and how many of us has been a casus belli and cause celebre at many a Commencement before this, and it's likely to be again if everybody doesn't watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETS EVERYBODY KEEP CALM, FIND OUT ABOUT SEATS SOON | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Halloween celebration on the part of a certain firebug element among the undergraduates was the consensus of opinion as to the casus belli. The immediate result was a half hour traffic tieup, during which time the delayed motorists expressed impatience in the usual harmonious fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP HOUSE HAS HONOR OF FIRST FIRE | 10/29/1936 | See Source »

Degiac Kassa and General Mariotti thought alike. Before the General was able to unlimber his camel guns, volley upon volley of rifle fire echoed from the cliffs. Skirmish lines went out, runners raced for munitions, support. Colonel Belli, the General's second-in-command, ran forward to help the mountain battery, got bullets in a hand and knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Bloody Gorge | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

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