Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preparation for war, "which takes in colleges the forms of military training, jingoistic propaganda, etc."; to "expose the sham of 'democracy'. . .; the consistent denial of the elementary rights of free speech, press and peaceful assembly; the violent repression of working class struggles"; to expose and fight against "a fascist reign by capitalist interests"; to defend and popularize the U. S. S. R. and its plan; to fight against racial and national discrimination; to fight for academic freedom, both in the classroom and out; and to support the demands for government unemployment insurance...
...throne at the time. Thus the World War began in the Third Year of Taisho (the present Emperor's father: 1912-26), and this letter would be dated 7-2-19, as being written in the seventh year of Showa (Righteousness, the title chosen by Emperor Hirohito for his reign), on the 19th day of the second month...
...magistrates appointed by Sparta over Athens at the termination of the Peloponnesian War were called the '30 tyrants,' and were overthrown after one year's reign. The end of the tyrants was heralded with a spirit of gladness...
...Comparative Literature Queen Elizabeth and all the Tudors were so much interested in their Welsh descent, and all that it implied, that it was almost inevitable for Spenser to use the Arthurian legend in a poem which glorified his sovereign on the basis of national legend. During her reign Arthurian interests were abundant, and those interests were abundant, and those interested in the backgrounds and sources of English poetry will find little-known treasures of British folk-lore and myth...
...late days of the Reign of Terror a sallow faced little man stood up in a spate of gunfire and shouted an order. A dirty Paris mob had started a street fight, and in the interests of peace it must be stopped. There was the rumble of caissons over the cobbles, the dull roar of cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists...