Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualified voter there, the name of the political party with which he is affiliated, and that he is unavoidably absent from his ward or precinct on the last general registration held there. The application must be signed by the applicant and sworn to by him before a civil officer authorized to administer oaths...
...main, solemn connecting thread through out the story and as a gripping bond with the reader. With all the many complications which might easily arise under the scope of such a colossal task, the reader never feels lost or bewilderd. The delineation's of the actual characters of the Civil War which Benet draws are superbly real. They glow with the intense fire of humanity and the heat from them makes every word sparkle with the sheer reality that at last a poet, using a medium of great poetry and not prose gone mad, has accomplished an enthralling tale...
...year of advanced study in communication engineering, one of the most important subjects in modern naval operations, according to Professor G. W. Pierce '01, director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, with whom the naval officers are studying. The Navy Department sends selected graduates of Annapolis to the best civil institutions for concentration in certain fields of advanced study after their first six year cruise, and one year of post-graduate work in the Naval Academy...
...Southwest of the 1880's. Far from being of purely juvenile interest it has an historical value all the more welcome because of the authentic perspective it furnishes of the lives of our western forefathers, and the vast movements of humanity from east to west following the Civil War. Those who cherish memories of the true West and are surfeited with the false and discordant atmosphere shed by cheap novels and moving pictures will find refreshment, instruction, and entertainment in Mr. Collins' attractively illustrated work. If such praise sound profuse, the reviewer merely wishes to point out that Hamlin Garland...
Authors Frankfurter and Landis analyze the political, social and economic forces that have produced changes in the federal judicial system. With the Civil War, the triumph of nationalism over "states' rights" enlarged the jurisdiction of the federal courts, modified and expanded their structure. Tremendous increase in industry so flooded their dockets that a separate court was created for customs appeals, and another for regulation of railways and other great national utilities. Involved in politics, this latter (a Commerce Court not to be confused with the Interstate Commerce Commission) was short-lived...