Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud of the fact that our career is one that deals with the building of men. In the army, men are taken from all parts of the country, from all walks of life. They come largely from the drift, mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must be, at all times, prepared to defend our country. Watching a group of green recruits grow in our hands into a smoothly-working organization which will in time of need be the mainstay of the defence of our country--therein lies the pride...
...Angel of the Lord bade Moses tell his people that when the Passover came they should sacrifice lambs and smear their doors with the blood, that the Angel of Death, passing by, might know where righteous men lived. Long after the death of Moses, Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs; and in the ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors. In the Middle Ages, when the Jews were hated most bitterly by Christians, the legend arose that the blood upon their doors was that of Christian children whom Jews deemed the most suitable...
Since all Empires have been bought with blood, and since all Emperors have been deemed glorious, Shoe Tycoon Bat'a need not necessarily mind that the International Federation of Trade Unions has officially denounced him thus...
...factories inhumanity and the exploitation of the workers are brought to a fine art. . . . The 'Ford of Zlin' prospers . . . but [his] success is built upon the living flesh and blood of . . . workers...
...elaborate trousseau, including many a Parisian gown. Throughout the house sprawled electricity, plumbing. And further, Prince and Princess had gone to live in their very own home, not in the old fashioned way to the home of the bridegroom's parents. Further the Princess is not of imperial blood which formerly would have made her unfit for the Prince's hand. For these reasons and because they had married for love, like the reigning Emperor Hirohito (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), the new Imperial couple symbolize the twilight end of ancient Japanese marriage customs, and point to the rising...