Word: civilizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff, that it would take 5,530 airplanes and 9,573,000 pounds of mustard gas to force the evacuation of the District of Columbia. General Fries believed that 1,000 airplanes and 40,000 pounds of tear gas would get rid of the civil population. Major Carl Spatz, D.S.C., flyer, told the Court that Air service equipment is "obsolete or obsolescent," and told how, in an attempt to find a suitable range for target practice for pursuit planes, when finally a suitable place was found for a rental of one dollar a year...
...terms of the Versailles Treaty. At a special session, hastily summoned, Marchal Foch and other Allied military experts sanctioned the termination of Allied military surveillance in the Rhineland. The Government of the Reich was officially informed that Cologne would be evacuated on Dec. 1, and that the Allied civil administration of the Rhineland would be terminated in the immediate future...
...awaken faith in God, his father, a Congregational minister, taught him to reason, with the unhappy result that Ingersoll became an agnostic, and all his life continued to champion his faith in no faith. He studied law, was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1857. In the Civil War he raised a regiment of cavalry, used in his recruiting speeches a natural eloquence unsurpassed in his generation. But it was not until his speech in the Republican Convention of 1876 that he came to national fame as an orator...
...learning of a trade or profession, civil or military; or even of the details of cookery, dress-making or millitary; or of agriculture, music...
...Little Rock, Ark. He was moved to take this step after hearing her sing, in a childish treble, "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." Mrs. Fitch, a shrill-voiced and bony-handed woman, taught her the words of hymns, while the dominie, who had been a drummer in the Civil War, instructed her in music. Both, with passionate fervor, spanked...