Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Still less does the visitor to that tranquil but busy continent suspect such imminent dangers threatening its long coast line and its growing overseas commerce as to demand a 'larger number of warships than any other nation. For such, in effect, is President Coolidge's claim...
Turning to the matter of Sea Power, the President recalled that Britain possesses, apart from her navy, certain "advantages" not possessed by the U. S., namely a large merchant fleet capable of being armed. He concluded: We are entitled to a larger number of warships than a nation having these advantages...
Only a man of prodigious historic imagination could picture to himself the entity of Slavic evolution. Centuries before the bright miracle of Bethlehem the Slavs were a nation of lithe, swarthy wanderers who cultivated the land northeast of the Carpathians. Fearfully they turned to dark hills for sullen, reverberating commandments of Perun the Thunderer. Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God. Then their sweating oxen strained over furrows; hives were loud with bees; joyous honeyed mead was brewed in the glades. With the arching zest of dolphins the Slavs plunged in the waters of the Vistula, Pripet...
...Huns under black-hearted Attila, compelled warfare. The Slavs multiplied, mi grated. Westward they journeyed to Poland, Northern Germany. Eastward they thronged Russia, pierced in slim wedges to the Pacific. Southward they trekked to Hungary, Albania, Greece. By the sth century A.D. they had ceased to be a nation, were even losing race consciousness. Gradually the widespread Slavic peoples adopted Christianity. The 15th century martyr, Bohemian John Huss, was their most eloquent devotee of the cross. Today only the esoteric significance of language, as understood by pedants, betrays the Slavic as the most numerous of European races. Miscegenation and environment...
...contemplate. Their letters show that the mothers and grandmothers, and in some cases the fathers and grandfathers listened in at home while their children heard the concert at school. Altogether it looks as though this might grow into a gigantic awakening on the part of the Nation to music...