Word: civilizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...