Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with E. E. Record '32 in the hurdles and N. P. Hallowell '32 in the middle distance runs leading a powerful aggregation, 1932 seems to have an excellent chance to overthrow the jinx of the Blue yearling meet. While the Yale Freshmen bowed to Princeton, 73 to 62, last Saturday, the local first year men were trouncing Exeter and setting up some remarkable times, though somewhat aided by the favoring wind conditions of the Academy track
...Amid the vast confusion of trash of every form, from cosmetics to detective story magazines, that is flooding Europe and America, the overthrow of our civilization seems imminent. We can avoid it only by following the teachings of the greatest men that have ever lived, among them, Plato. Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, the great Hindu teachers, and last and best exponent of all ideas. Jesus Christ...
...some Senators urged that the whole idea of secret sessions be judged ridiculous and abandoned. Never flippant, always putting the particular into the perspective of lofty principal, Senator Norris pontificated : "Public business should be transacted in public. Any other course, if followed to its logical conclusion, means the ultimate overthrow of every democracy in the world. No democratic government can continue to endure if its public business is transacted behind closed doors...
...propose to overthrow my Cabinet, mes amis," cried the Prime Minister, "do so now! A crisis today would have serious but reparable consequences. A crisis once the negotiations have begun would be a mortal blow to France...
...Glass asked him what would happen, under the treaty, if the League of Nations took coercive measures to settle the Paraguay-Bolivian dispute. He ran his hands through his hair, hesitated, said that he did not think the U. S. could intervene provided the League did not attempt to overthrow the Paraguayan or Bolivian governments. He added, however, that European governments had previously used force in South America without U. S. objection, and that what ever we could do in South America with out the treaty we could continue to do with the treaty. This last statement was typical...