Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those benefits are hampered by poor equipment, limited space, and miserable ventilation. Far more fortunate are those who take their exercise in football, baseball, soccer, track, and lacrosse, but these sports are played on Soldiers' Field and Soldier's Field is a memorial to the fallen dead of the Civil...
...Little Phil" Sheridan was born in Albany, N. Y. He had been graduated from West Point, had served in the Far West, had been a Quartermaster Captain in the Civil War, a Cavalry Colonel, had stormed Missionary Ridge, had fought with Jeb Stuart in the battle in which the latter was killed, had beaten General Early in the Shenandoah Valley, had had his famous 20 miles to Cedar Creek to turn defeat to victory, had been at Appomattox Court House, had commanded in the Southwest after the war, had fought the Indians, had gone to Germany and observed...
...civil authorities of Chicago have already put the city's children to work cleaning up back yards and alley ways. The finance committee of the city council has approved plans for a Court of Honor,an alley of festooned, illuminated white posts. After the Lord has enjoyed His bouquet, Chicago, always practical, will utilize this posted promenade to do honor to a convention of Elks and another of Moose...
...many myriads have seen and heard and known George Wilham Mundelein. They have seen him as a Manhattan?? boy undecided whether to enter the army (his grandfather was the first Union soldier killed at Fort Sumter in the prelude to the Civil War) or to join the Catholic priesthood. They have known him at work in the Diocese of Brooklyn and in Chicago. They have heard his eloquence (he speaks several languages). They know ms gestures, his habit of forgetting names...
...That hypothesis cannot be supported by a single hair. Burnsides got the name from the gallant General Ambrose E. Burnside, a Civil War hero, who wore that kind of whiskers...