Word: concorde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building, which is the one still standing, was built in 1765-67. Its uses since then have been many and varied. During the Revolution, for a short period when the students were transferred to Concord. Harvard Hall served as head-quarters for the American Army. Half a ton of lead was torn from the roof at the time to be moulded into bullets. George Washington was received there...
...Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII of Spain, courageous,! sporting, versatile, last week watched the regatta at Bilbao. The boat races over, he exhorted the young bloods of Spain to develop patriotism with sport, adding that sportsmanship among the nations was a less expensive way of promoting international concord than the League of Nations, of which Spain, huffed, is not at present an active member. (TIME, Sept. 20, 1926).? Said he, after announcing that the country would take part in the Olympic Games next year: "I have observed with satisfaction this year the increase in your series of boat races...
...seven big battleships made white scratches on the still dark surface of Manila Bay in the Philippines. A few rockets and cannon broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood...
...Filled with conviction that there is a necessity for France and England to be united, I repeat for my own part the prayer of the British cities, 'May the concord founded between our two great nations by common sacrifice and cemented by the blood of our best and bravest children be perpetuated as long as the world shall endure...
...question was, wrote Editor de Jouvenel, whether the Great Powers are sincere in their ostensible trust in the League as an agency of international concord or whether they prefer to deal darkly with one another behind the League's back. Such dealing, de clared M. de Jouvenel, has been continuously the policy of Aristide Briand, although that statesman, it is well known, praises the League with high emotional fervor in his public speeches (TIME, Sept...