Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workers as before he World War. . . . The Boer War was chief cause operating to produce the introduction of the harmonica into South Africa. . . . Japan might still be without he pleasures to be derived from the harmonica had it not been introduced there with a view to providing easily produced martial music in time...
...result of the quarrel was that Frémont was court-martialed in Washington and found guilty of mutiny, disobedience of orders, causing undue disturbance. President Polk canceled the punishment, allowed Frémont to remain in the Army. But Frémont resigned, insisting on his complete innocence. Despite its verdict, the court-martial made Frémont the hero of the North and the prophet of expansion...
...Mussolini's bravado in the case of Austria is explained by the martial weakness of that country," continued Professor Langer, "while he does not employ it with Savoy and Nice, the real power of the opposition. By this catering to the public taste, and by such means as his bringing out a bust of himself as successor of the old Romans, he shows his understanding of Italian hearts and their love of the spectacular. Thus he makes himself a hero in their eyes. I don't believe that he personally believes very seriously his superficial policy of reconstructing...
...many, so loud and so persistent were the Hulls and the Libbys, the cranks and the clergy, and innumerable women as peaceful as the D. A. R. is martial, that the "Big Navy" program dwindled. After reading the week's mail, Representative Britten told President Coolidge that he guessed the Big-Navy plans had best be revamped for a Little Big-Navy- At the end of the week it was about agreed to authorize the following...
Besides "waging peace," the Navy would wage neutrality. Despite their martial preoccupations, Navy men are students of U. S. trade. They know that if other nations war, the Navy may be called on to protect the neutral rights of U. S. merchantmen. About merchant shipping they point...