Word: interring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete reorganization and rejuvenation of inter-class football at Harvard during the past fall has proved one of the most effective and successful steps in the University's policy of athletics for all. The hotly contested series of games between the three upper classes for the University title was culminated with the victory of the championship Junior eleven over the winning Yale class team...
Significance. Aside from U. S. financial interests in Nicaragua which are considerable, the U. S. holds a perpetual permit to build an inter-ocean canal across the Nicaraguan isthmus which was purchased by the U. S. during the Taft Administration (1913). Throughout the past decade successive U. S. Administrations, of whatever party, have kept a detachment of Marines in Nicaragua until last year, when their withdrawal was followed immediately by the coup d' état of General Chamorro. The Nicaraguan Administrations upheld by the U. S. have apparently been obnoxious to a majority of Nicaraguans, but in upholding...
...includes the pooling of electric power resources in all the six New England states (including the Passamaquody tidal power project; see p. 28); the social unification of diverse peoples towards their common prosperity ("By and large New England is better off because of the immigration which she has had"); inter-related transportation ("Co-operation or unified action by the New Haven and the Boston & Maine should enable them not only to provide the most economic and satisfactory service within New England, but would also in her dealings with outside lines make New England the master of her own resources...
...other mortal, he remains unscathed of soul, brisk in thought and manner. Americans remember him as the Generalissimo who drove through their cities, after the War, clad in a handsome blue uniform and with a slow, understanding smile. Frenchmen know him as the still active President of the Inter-Allied Military Commission to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. Of an evening he is to be found with a pipe and a friend at his snug little house, 138 Rue de Grenelle, Paris...
...days of Cameron Forbes, ready to sacrifice their lives, if need be, in order to serve the Filipinos. It means giving future governors the power to administer constructively. It means investing money, establishing farm schools, and inaugurating a campaign to introduce modern agricultural methods. It means developing roads and inter-island communications to such a point that the peoples of the remote islands can ship their produce with regularity. It means clearing virgin lands and establishing plantations. It means perfecting the school system and making an earnest drive to prepare the people--all of the people, and not only...