Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Don José Sanchez Guerra was Prime Minister of Spain shortly before General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera seized dictatorial power (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). Don José soon and ostentatiously went into "voluntary exile" at Paris, proclaimed that he did so in protest against Dictator Primo de Rivera's suppression of...
He set out from France in a chartered tramp steamer. Her engines broke down. He reached Valencia two days late, after the revolution had fizzled, and just in time to be arrested for High Treason.
The Game of Love and Death. Alice Brady chooses to meet the guillotine with her husband rather than accept his noble gift of passports which would have enabled her lover and herself to escape. With this verbose French revolution episode by Remain Rolland, the Theatre Guild's season continues...
Third, the fight against liquor in this country began more than a hundred and fifty years ago. Dr. Benjamin Rush, chief medical officers of the Continental army, witnessing the havoc wrought by liquor among the soldiers, used all his influence against it, but of course, the standards of the time...
The origin of the several thousand comets that are members of the solar system is equally baffling. The origin of the moons of Mars, and some of the other peculiar satellites, is only guessed at; and perhaps most disturbing of all is the difficulty in accounting for the observed speeds...