Word: key
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilhelm Marx, Centrist, Catholic leader, opposed to both Socialists and Monarchists and holding the key to the German political situation...
...Henry Smythe, executive secretary of the Benjamin Franklin memorial committee of the New York Sons of the American Revolution, has asked the President and Fellows to investigate Benjamin Franklin's contribution to the science of electricity. The famous experiment of the key and kite, resulting in the only shock of Franklin's life, is even doubted by incredulous scientists. Such belitttling of the school-boys favorite picture of Franklin "defying the lightning like Ajax Telamen", should certainly be investigated, even though a disastrous precedent...
...jail forever before I will give the key of my design to that committee...
This union will probably never be achieved. It is natural enough that German speaking states should join hands; but the internal forces that prevented agreement for hundreds of years still operate, as post-war history illustrates but too clearly. And then there is France. The key to her whole recent diplomacy is her attempt to ring her former foes around with her own military satellites and to build up these petty states as much as possible. A union of Austria and Germany would certainly strengthen the former and possibly the latter; and French policy demands the weakening of both. Inasmuch...
Died. Mrs. Ellen Key Howard Morgan, granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, famed writer of The Star Spangled Banner; in Lexington...