Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very highest importance to the country and to any Government, whatever its complexion, that is in power. This object is less a formal visit to the last unvisited Dominion, less a question of London policy, still less an attempt to reconcile Boer and Briton, than a national rally to combat the greatest peril of the white man in South Africa...
...months, the Sofia Government has been deluging the Allied authorities with proofs of Bolshevik machinations in Bulgaria and has often and urgently made representations that the Bulgarian Army of the 20,000 volunteers permitted by the Treaty of Neuilly be supplanted by a conscript army of 50,000 to combat the growing Bolshevik menace. The Council of Ambassadors at Paris, guardian angels of the peace treaties, permitted (the week before the present outrages) an increase of 3,000 volunteers, a number which the Government thought totally insufficient, especially as it has repeatedly professed that it can place little reliance...
...sooner did Colonel William Mitchell?he that was a General, one of "Pershing's men" who dashed so furiously about France in a special Renault, who tore through bursting skies to combat, who swaggered most gloriously?no sooner did he cease berating the elderly admirals of Washington than other admirals on the Pacific were faced?so the press would have it?with a most embarrassing test...
...850.ft. long; will have a speed of 33 knots; is powered by steam turbines capable of generating 180,000 horsepower (nearly equal to half the entire horsepower of the Navy in 1898) ; is armed with a main battery of eight 8-inch guns; will be able to carry 72 combat, observation and bombing planes...
...left his system, but the lack of oxygen in the haemoglobin particles produces an effect of asphyxiation which we are trying to combat...