Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, it was ordained that the fortifications were to be destroyed; the Germans were further forbidden to reconstruct them...
...cases are not parallel, however, since there is a special provision of the treaty allowing France and Italy to reconstruct their capital ships in respects not permitted to other powers. But raising the angles of naval guns is nowhere specifically mentioned. The treaty is unfortunately vague both in specification and intent as regards the whole matter...
...judge has made his opening statement. Again the lines of battle in the class war are sharply drawn; the zero hour is about to strike, and once more the nation will listen to the citizens of Herrin-farmers, strikebreakers, tradesmen, victims of the mob, union miners-as they reconstruct the massacre in which 22 strikebreakers and mine guards lost their lives...
...parody is this; is it funny to the reader who never saw the original? Readers of the Lampoon's "Town and Country" number will be able to laugh even though they never subscribed to "Town and Country". The parody itself, plus a small injection of imagination, is enough to reconstruct that magazine in all its glory. No doubt the real "Town and Country" will be much in demand hereabouts--no one suspected what an entertaining periodical it was, before the Lampoon et to work and brought out its virtues. Parody is not only the highest flattery, but the best sort...
...effort to pay the reparations justly demanded, and has pursued a policy of passive resistance; that in 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War, France was forced to pay the entire amount of the indemnity demanded; finally, France is in urgent need of money and material to enable her to reconstruct what Germany has destroyed, and that by pursuing her policy of the occupation of the Ruhr Valley, France will either secure in material the equivalent of the reparations, or she will force Germany to square her accounts...