Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason last week's U. S. Supreme Court decision in the last of the civil cases arising out of the oil scandals of 1924 was of greater interest to society than the outcome of the criminal suits still pending. The necklace in the case was an oil reserve worth 100 millions and the owner was society. The decision restored to the U. S. Navy the tract of 9,321 oil-bearing acres called "Teapot Dome" in Natrona County, Wyo., which onetime (1921-23) U. S. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased in 1922 to Oilman Harry...
...Civil Service in England and America," Professor Munro, New Lecture Hall...
...WHEREAS the Church allows the remarriage only of the innocent party in a divorce for adultery or for such willful desertion as can in no way way be remedied by the church or civil magistrate...
Quiescent now for several moons, the Chinese civil war broke out suddenly last week in all its Chinese fury and the results were buried in customary Chinese contradictions...
...where Yen's troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking was threatened by the most powerful military alignment since the Chinese civil war broke out and that the troops in this alignment were closer to the Chinese capital than ever before...