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Word: nation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wearing of long hair after the maner of Rufflans and the barbarous Judians hath begun to invade New England contrary to the Rule of God's word which sayth Jt is a shame for a man to wear long hair, an also the commendable custom of our nation untill within these few yeares...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Archives-- | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...strategy aimed at hypnotizing the enemy from the front while the right wing encircles the main body and gradually crushes it in a firm embrace. Trained at the Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer can do all three and make it exciting enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM ALGIERS TO ALABAMA | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...strong navy is essential to American safety in the present crisis, the senator said. Building up our maritime strength to the allowance of the 5-6-8 ratio need not be interpreted as violating our position as a strictly neutral nation, he remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AMERICA FIRST," URGES WALSH IN A.I.L. SPEECH | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

...Poland emerged from the World War a runied nation," Count Potocki said. Its problem was to change a battlefield into a well-run and firmly established country. Taking the problem of education as an example of Polish progress, the Polish Ambassador told how illiteracy had been reduced from 40% to 18%, with educational facilities provided for everyone of school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Count Jerszy Potocki, Polish Envoy, Expresses Hope for Homeland's Future | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

...went as far back as 1333, to the reign of Casimir the Great, who devoted his entire life to domestic reforms and intellectual pursuits, to prove that the people of Poland, "like any other European nation, have established for themselves the right to freedom and independence, a right which the Poles have never relinquished and will always continue to uphold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Count Jerszy Potocki, Polish Envoy, Expresses Hope for Homeland's Future | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

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