Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Frank R. Kent, of the Baltimore Sun: "The San Francisco earthquake and fire does not compare with this as a national calamity. Nothing else . . . since the Civil War is in its class...
...thousand two hundred rifles, 272 machine guns, and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were surrendered last week to the U. S. forces in Nicaragua by the Liberal and Conservative armies, heretofore engaged in a civil war (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, personal representative of President Coolidge, supervised this operation, cabled: "The civil war in Nicaragua is now definitely ended...
...school] includes in its plan the religions of the Protestant Christians, the Roman Catholics and the Jews. That these three parties should live in harmony and cooperate in civil and secular relations, is reasonable and time-tested. But these religions and beliefs are in deadly antagonism. The Protestant Christians through all their history have believed and testified that Christ is very God and very man. The Jews crucified Christ and have persistently declared He was only a man, and even a man worthy of death. He has no special value either as a man or a Savior. The Protestant declares...
...falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money with which to get a start in life, he sees in this a reminder of the difference in their stations. So he goes away to work. Then, there is the Civil War into which Jimmy jumps with gusto and out of which he emerges embittered. But the Civil War kills Stewart's father, crumbles Southern castes, gives Jimmy his victory...
...ready to describe her as stupid, but her mouth was so red that everything she said seemed intelligent to me." Other stories concern a Chinese curio hunt in which one of the most remarkable curios is a lady's virtue; a treasure hunt which comes near to being a civil war; a horse of Genghis Khan...