Word: domains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilbur's alertness and abilities are shown in his accomplishments with problems of education, conservation, Indian affairs, pensions, parks, public domain...
...Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire-builder; he enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook the job of policing this new domain. National defense dictated the purchase from Denmark of the Virgin Islands for 25 million dollars in 1917, to give the U. S. military control over the portals of the Caribbean and hence the Panama Canal...
...endless tape bound round and round the world is the U. S. cinema film. Last week Londoners flocked to see Masks of the Devil while Paris and Berlin gaped simultaneously at The Broadway Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the domain of the cinema we have become virtual tributaries to American productions. Americans already hail [the talkies] as a vehicle for spreading the English language over the world. It is an immense and implacable effort for intellectual colonization that threatens...
...sheriff's investigation revealed a medieval oligarchy in northern Arkansas. Two intermarrying, farm-owning clans on Dry and Cagin Creeks hold baronial sway over their hilly domain. With hickory whips and squirrel rifles they drive indigent, illiterate citizens to farm work at serf's wages. Claiming seigniorial "first right" to all women of the community, the clansmen had exerted their claim on the Ruminer girl, killed Franklin for defying them...
Explorers are flag planters. But Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in his flight across unexplored Antarctica to the South Pole last week dropped no emblems of U. S. sovereignty (see page 64). Domain over the ice-locked continent at Earth's bleak nadir seemed likely to be determined not by fur-clad flag-planters but by silk-hatted diplomats...