Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vision of the democratic Empire, steadily evolving toward the greater self-government of its various units, releasing the native genius of its different people, and yet unified under the structure of English constitutional law. He saw his years of work for a peaceful, democratic Empire set back by the impact of World War I, in which his only brother was killed. As Lloyd George's secretary during the war, he had worked for the League of Nations, saw hope end in the Treaty of Versailles...
...impact of the innovation in arrangement is being compared to that which occurred on the fateful day in 1935 when the book came out entited "catalog," with no "gue" ending. The spelling reform, however, didn't work out too well, and the final "no" was back on the cover the following year...
...inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with Canada that it would involve, the impact on the traditionally isolationist Middle West in finding its harbors linked to the docks of Amsterdam. If the St. Lawrence Seaway had half the effects claimed for it, the inland U. S. would be a vastly shrunken area, since even Duluth would be part of the Eastern seaboard...
...names of the victims leaked out, the impact of the purge rocked Bucharest to its rotting foundations. Murdered along with the police who had carried out the Iron Guard execution two years before were onetime Iron-Guard-purging Premier General George Argeseanu; General Gabriel Marinescu, onetime Bucharest police chief and watchdog over King Carol's redheaded paramour Magda Lupescu; Victor Ismandi, Minister of Justice when Codreanu was sentenced to prison...
...evening meeting began with a discussion of "Can American Democracy Survive?" by Professor J. Anton de Haas. Professor de Haas was followed by Professor A. H. Hansen, who spoke on "The Impact of a Totalitarian Victory on the American Economy," and suggested that a German Europe and a British-American-Far Eastern economic bloc could exist side by side...