Word: countermarching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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China has no government properly speaking but is the spoil of military adventurers who march and countermarch up and down tha land in a conglomerate civil war. Noteworthy, this state of affairs makes it impossible for the Powers to abandon the safeguarding of their citizens in China by the principle of extraterritoriality under which foreigners are tried before courts of their own nationals set up in China...
...championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that ended the season...