Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spinning-wheel that never stops, would have shown once more that nobody can beat him. For five days, 23¾ hours, he had almost continuously led the field-then a crash at the corner, a spill over the handlebars, and he lay beside his partner, Linari. The Italian, his shoulder heavily bandaged, was barely able to remount his vehicle, but McNamara shook himself, got up, pedaled the last mile and won the race, 2,286 miles, 146 pedaling hours...
General Umberto Nobile, polar dirigible engineer: "An audience in Davenport, Iowa, demanded money back after hearing me lecture last week, declaring my Italian accent made my English unintelligible. Sued for $1,800, my promoters withheld from...
...Italian Painting of the 11th Century", Professor Post. Fogg Museum, Fine Arts...
...little kingdom of Sardinia, the Italian states swept aside the Papal authority, threw off the Austrian yoke and laid the foundations of what has become under Mussolini, one of the Great Powers. And in this process of resurrection and reconstruction no man did move than Count Camillo di Gavour...
...policy was to secure the internal material welfare of Sardinia, so that she might become the leader in the struggle for Italian unity and independence. By a comprehensive revision of taxes and a stiffening of the industrial backbone of the country, he procured his desired internal reform...