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Word: civilizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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These circumstances have led the Harvard Chapter of the Junior League of the American Civil Liberties Union to send the following wire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas-For-President Club Telegraphs for Statement From Authorities on Jailing of Gitlow-Foul Play is Suspected | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

Last week, Virginia, "the old dominion," contributed to the contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Robbed | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...believe in the merit system of the civil service and I believe further thatat appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve." (This was taken to refer to Negro postmasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Speech No. 4 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...have troubled those youthful days was how one mere division was sufficient to contain all the wisdom of the three fields of History. Government and Economics. If there are any others still not quite clear as to the relation the price of General Motors bears to the Chinese civil war the lecture to be given this morning by Professor Usher on "The Economic Geography of the Roman Empire" should clear up any doubts by showing be Importance of economics in at least one case of history. It is to be given at 12 in Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Both legends date back to the Civil War when North Carolina troops were at one time stationed at Gettysburg. The outstanding brilliance of the Southern troops in withstanding almost alone the Union attack was jokingly attributed to tarred heels which could not give ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TARRED HEELS GIVE FIRM FOOTING TO CAROLINIANS | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

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