Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers from Britain. This means that both diplomatic and commercial relations have been broken off between Mexico and Britain. The announcement specified that British consular officials would receive every courtesy and consideration if their Government decided to leave them in the country. Honduras. The long drawn out second Honduran revolt continued. In a battle between the Government troops and the rebels in which 600 were killed, the rebels fled and the Government troops fled after them...
...Thomas of Chicago sponsors the estimate that forty-four hundred eighty students out of forty-six hundred at the University of Tokio are atheists. The so-called atheism of Harvard, of perhaps a half dozen out of the entire student body, is utterly buried beneath this avalanche of revolt in Japan...
...dreams in a modernistic manner, reminiscent of the weird episodes in The Adding Machine. She dreams in terms of revolt against her cloister of convention. She dreams that she has fought her way free. She wakes...
Needless to say, the bandit urge predominates; and he leads in revolt a band of peasants against his crafty uncle, who has killed his father. Finally, a Trappist monastery-and the rest is silence...
Whatever the decision of the Boundary Commission may be, it will fail to please Northern Ireland, unless the Commission confirms the boundary as it is at present delimited. In the latter case, the Free State will probably revolt against the Government. However, the finding of the Commission is much more likely to be one that will please neither side. In this event, Northern Ireland will appeal to the Privy Council on the ground that the decision of the Commission was ultra vires. The issue will then be up to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, whose decision will...