Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The greatest achievement of the Roosevelt administration was undoubtedly the building of the Panama Canal. For over fifty years we had been guaranteed open transit across the Isthmus, but had been forced repeatedly to intervene, often at the request of Columbia, who owned Panama, in order to protect our interests...
Theodore Roosevelt, who was then president, recorded his contempt of the Bogota Treaty which was made after this revolution. He expressed himself in these words: "I did not lift my finger to incite the revolutionists. Colombia was solely responsible for her own humiliation, and she had not then and has...
Mr. Oliver M. Sayler, the noted dramatic critic, will arrive in Cambridge in time for a dinner in his honor at the Union tomorrow night at 7.00, before his speech on "The Russian Theatre Under the Revolution" at 8.00 o'clock in the Living Room.
Mr. Sayler, who was in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and found the theatres the most normal institutions of that land, will illustrate his speech by lantern slides, giving an intimate view of the work of the Bolshevik regime.
In the early stages of the French Revolution one hundred and fifty thousand nobles non-juring, priests, and dissident bourgeois crossed the frontiers to escape the impending deluge. Many of them clustered in the little. German states in the east where, at Coblenz and Worms, they established headquarters for the...