Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of recent changes in Civil Service examinations, men with college training will now find it easier to secure well pain government positions without having had any previous practical experience in their field...
TIME, Feb. 6, Foreign News, p. 15. "It took the Wilderness and Shiloh, as well as Gettysburg to finish the U. S. Civil...
...battle of Shiloh was at least a partial victory for the Confederate States, and was certainly prior to that of Gettysburg. Might it not be more historically accurate to say that it took "overwhelming superiority of material" (TIME, p. 14, same issue) to win the U. S. Civil War (War Between the States) as it took to win the Spanish Civil War (War between the Ideologies...
...February 15-The beginning of mobilization proper, including the requisitioning of civil transport...
Although Miss Lawrence began her career in England, she should be numbered among the heroines of this country, for she was sent from New York to the San Francisco world's fair as a goodwill delegate and thus averted a possible civil war between the East and the West...