Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still the case was not over. In 1902 the French government put through an anticlerical program and the religious issue revived the Dreyfus Case until Alfred Dreyfus demanded another trial finally to clear his name. In 1906 the third Dreyfus trial (this time not by a military organization) was held and resulted in Captain Dreyfus being absolved from all blame whatsoever. The generally accepted version of the Dreyfus Case was that Major Esterhazy and Colonel Henry had made a business of supplying Germany with military information; that advantage of the Anti-Semetic feeling had been taken to victimize Alfred Dreyfus...
When West Point Cadets attend chapel, clear and true peal out the notes of the chapel organ. Last week, however, the organ's integrity was seriously threatened. It seemed possible that in the not distant future it would be giving forth sour, discordant notes, offensive to the sensibilities of future generals. For the State of New York planned to run a new highway through the academy grounds, not far from the chapel and it appeared that the vibration from countless passing motor cars would be gravely detrimental to the pitch and harmony of the organ's music...
Singling out Communist Russia as the natural foe of Fascist Italy, Signor Turati cried: "The antithesis is clear; either Moscow will win or Rome will win. But you know there is no doubt that victory will rest with Rome...
Golf is the theme, of course, but so much personality and family background come into the narrative that the opening chapters, especially, are as clear a picture of the average U. S. sportsman's origins and environment as one might...
...urchin and a policeman in comic argument. He noted "sombre men with the blessed Red Cross on their arms," with stretchers ready for emergencies, which soon arose. "A youth of fine features and clear eyes" went suddenly mad, presumably with grief. "He bellowed horribly. He stretched his hands like the claws of a leopard and leaped upon one of the guards, screaming." They carried him off. The crowd followed the coffins...