Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pointed out that the French had three alternatives in their plan to destroy Germany's power, these being by political weakening, by economic depredation, or by propaganda, and stated that, since the French were inadept at spreading propaganda, they had resorted at the other methods, and were trying to overthrow Germany politically and economically, by separating Bavaria from the rest of the German state, and by depriving Germany of her coal and iron resources in Silesia and in the Saar and Ruhr valleys...
...substantial than a tissue of hypotheses, guesses, speculations and assumptions. When half baked scientists, and even preachers who are seeking to convey the impression that they are very "advanced" and who have merely dabbled in science--when such men as these parade their scepticism and doubts, and seek to overthrow and glorious temple of revealed religion, with guesses for their battering rams, then it is time for those who reverence a living God and believe in the revelation which He has given, to speak out in defense of "the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints...
...fraction of their proceeds as a tax to the Russian Government--and they are charging five dollars a seat. It is no wonder that the American Defense Society sees here a plot to subsidize sedition. At the end of their eight weeks' engagement, they will be ready to overthrow the Constitution...
Bishop Roots described briefly the changes that are going on in China today as a result of the overthrow of the Empire, and at the end of his talk, answered a number of questions...
...first of the three revolutions of today, to which the Bishop referred, is the Political Revolution. The overthrow of the Empire in 1911 and 1912 marked the end of a system of government that had existed from time immemorial. China, he declared, is now in a stage comparable to that of the United States in the dark years between the surrender of Cornwallis and the signing of the Constitution. But where America had 13 colonies with a population of two millions, China has 22 provinces, each the size of an European kingdom, with a population one quarter of the earth...