Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being demanded. He recommended a $300,000,000 reduction of taxes, but Congress reduced taxes nearly $70,000,000 beyond that figure and now all sorts of demands for special appropriations are being made: some $23,000,000 for Spanish War veterans' pensions, some $72,000,000 for Civil War veterans, some $50,000,000 for World War veterans, about $18,000,000 for Civil Service retirements. These bills, he intimated, would have to be trimmed so that Uncle Sam could make ends meet, or the President might have to use his veto power...
...coronation ceremony began, Shapur (Crown Prince) Mehenien Reza Pahlavi, a stocky child who has been granted a civil list of $2,000,000 a year, entered the throne room and walked with dignity to a stance at the right of the throne...
Another prominent graduate, Payson Dana '04, a trustee of the University and Civil Service commissioner, also looks upon the experience gained in business competitions as highly, advantageous. Even more important than the actual executive experience, Mr. Dana considers the friendships which are made in the course of the work...
...draw. We do not know what led the Mayas to abandon their great cities in the south and move northward. The exhaustion of the cultivable land may have been one of the reasons. We are also ignorant as to the events which led up to the fall of this civilization about 1450. Civil war, the injurious effects of the presence of foreigners and in all probability epidemics of yellow fever were contributory...
...solutions, all the ferment of rebellion against goose-stepping conventions, and sacred cows, affecting academic life in this country, have come from the students. Why worry about a younger generation that shows more intellectual and moral vitality than the whole procession of dodoes that has preceded it since the Civil War? Judge, April