Word: documented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With this background, much was hoped, especially as the new Pope deferred for a year issuance of his Encyclical, corresponding intrinsically to a new President's first message to Congress. But when the Latin document was finally made public in 1923, it referred to the occupation of Rome by the Italian Monarchy, with the words: "We protest! And we ought to protest...
...celebrate the fifth anniversary, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party in Russia issued a manifesto "to all workers and toilers." The manifesto was described as being "rather a tame document." It points out that the Internationale has grown from small beginnings to a "world force before which the bourgeoisie everywhere shrinks and trembles"; it also refers to a "deadly struggle against opportunism," which means a struggle against a compromise between capital and labor such as is now said to have been effected in Britain...
...amusement his keenly critical observations of the famous events at Concords, Lexington, and Bunker Hill, his opinions, often expressed with biting sarcasm, of General Gage, Colonel Smith and Colonel Clark, and his caustic comments on Yankee and British general staffs alike. There by he provided a contemporary historical document of exceedingly great value...
...almost lost to posterity. In the 1870's Edward Everett Hall '39 got wind of it. He mentioned the diary's existence in a class among the members of whom was Elizabeth Ellery Dana, daughter of the famous Richard Henry Dana. 'With great difficulty, Miss Dana traced the document from Philadelphia, where it was known to have disappeared, to Connecticut. Discovering it finally, she purchased it, and William Dean Howells, then editor of the Atlantic Monthy, was so impressed with its importance, that he published a few excerpts in 1872 with notes by Miss Dana...
...document's wanderings did not end there. Soon after it disappeared mysteriously from a safe deposit vault, and now only two manuscript copies, one by Miss Dana, the other by her sister remain...