Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even if mechanical ingenuity can patch up this patriarch of the desert, a projecting wall will have to be built around the figure, according to Arthur Woodley. American civil engineer A caged Sphinx whose head is held on by bars of Birmingham iron can scarcely be expected to personify the wisdom and mystery of the East...
...Received the report of its special committee investigating aircraft (of which Congressman Reid, lawyer for Colonel Mitchell, is a member) recommending, besides measures for promoting civil aviation, the creation of a Department of National Defense over both Army and Navy...
...only other incident of note centred about a military excursion sent by Super-Tuchun Feng, the so-called "Christian protector of Peking," against General Li Chingling, the Civil Governor of Chihli, with headquarters at Tientsin...
...armies in Morocco. Last week it began to look as if this promise were being kept rather well by Dictator de Rivera. He announced that he bas built up a political party, the Patriotic Union, and declared that he will function henceforth as Premier of the following half-civil, half-military Cabinet...
...Liberal (Madrid) commented: "While the new Government is a change from the old in name only, we hope that constitutional parliamentary government will soon return to Spain." El Sol, less sanguine characterized the new régime as "civil-military and transitory." The official communiqués declared: "The public received the news of the political change with approbation...