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Word: civilizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hays has had much practice in cases involving civil liberties and he is at present the national, director of American Civil Liberties Union, an or ganisation which attempts to protect and further the civil rights and liberties of citizens throughout the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hays to Speak Tomorrow | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...award was created in 1902 to commemorate Lord Kelvin's researches, and is presented every three years by the Institute of Civil Engineers of Great Britain for research work in ocean telegraphy and electrical measuring devices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KENNELLY NOMINATED FOR FAMOUS BRITISH AWARD | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Squiggle, loop, scratch went the fountain pen of a swart little Dictator-King Ahmed Zogu, last week, signing out the old Islamic law of Albania, signing in a new civil code based on the Swiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Swiss Laws, Greek Patriarch | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Similarly based on the Swiss code is the new civil law imposed on Turkey by Dictator-President Mustafha Kemal Pasha (TIME, Feb. 21, 1927). *Egyptian Prince Sabit Bey divorced himself in this convenient fashion from Mrs. Jean Nash, famed "Best Dressed Woman in the World," after they had been wed for a whole month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Swiss Laws, Greek Patriarch | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...very well are such confident, prophetic words, but at present the Mukden Arsenal is working overtime to produce enough artillery, rifles and ammunition for the latest Chinese civil war. So perfect and efficient are copies of the famed French "75" field gun now made in Mukden, that if ever the arsenal is set to copying motor cars it may prove difficult to tell a "Baby Dragon" from an "Austin Seven." Similarly, tractors are made in Soviet Russia so exactly like those produced by Henry Ford- even to the name plate - that simple peasants to whom they are sold never know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Baby Dragons | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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