Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The refusal of the King, for example, to accept the resignation of a Ministry defeated in Parliament would have serious effect, but Parliament could not legally force the Cabinet to retire. It would be powerless to legislate, for the King's consent is necessary to each Parliamentary bill before...
The Deutsche Zeitung (Berlin daily) exclaimed: "Another of them gone, over whose grave Germany will shed no tears." The "another" referred to the Rt. Hon. Sir George W. Buchanan, last British Ambassador to the Court of the Romanovs. The Germans charged him with having been the "first to recognize the...
"In the first place, the Emperor never wavered in his loyalty to his allies, but remained true to them up to the day of his death. In the second, it was the American Ambassador [David R. Francis], and not I, who first recognized the Revolution. I only did so nine...
David Belasco, wizard of the realistic stage, is about to sell his collections- artistic and otherwise. There is a work table of rosewood, gift to his mother from Edwin Booth; there is a cloak worn by Booth as Don Cesar de Bazan; a French harp once belonging to the Empress...
Amos Eaton introduced to the school Van Rensselaer had founded new methods of study and new purposes. It was he who in 1835 grasped the importance of the industrial revolution the U. S. was then undergoing, took upon himself the title of Professor of Civil Engineering and presented four young...