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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of countries for nearly a thousand years. That combine distantly approached world government, which in past ages meant the government of Central and Southern Europe with the adjacent portions of Northern Africa and Western Asia. Yet the outcome of all, the efforts of European unification was fiercer animosities, more terrible wars and the subdivision of large countries into smaller and hostile units...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asiatic Complex and Great Britain's Position are Difficulties of United States of Europe, Says Hart | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...Fiercer the wind. At 150 m.p.h. it sounded thin and high.* It sucked at the plane, whirled her backwards for half a mile. The three men, planeless, could only wait wet and miserable for rescue. It came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Antarctic Wind | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Britain, losing, smote five goals, but played a far fiercer game than in the opening match (TIME, Sept. 19) when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Meadow Brook | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...bulletin: SACCO MURDERED! (Loud but orderly cries of indignation, booes, catcalls. But no fiercer than the noise that a 10,000 base ball-crowd makes when a favorite disappoints. Flares and the Internationale, which soon died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: In Charlestown | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Graduate Schools Basketball League competition is getting fiercer as the end of the season approaches. Law I leads the league by a wide margin, but suffered its first defeat of the season yesterday afternoon at the hands of Law III. The game was fast and hard-fought throughout and at the final whistle the league leaders found themselves on the short end of a 30 to 21 score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW I LEADS BASKETBALL LEAGUE IN GRADUATE SCHOOL | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

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