Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the League of Nations is to promote peace. This institution as it now exists is dominated by the Latin countries, especially France and Italy. The religion of most of these countries is largely Catholic. The influence of the Nordic races, in particular the Anglo-Saxon is not strong. England hardly feels safe as she stands now. We were lucky to have Germany join...
...summary of the Springfield game: Harvard Springfield Thomas, g. g., Murray Phaneuf, l.f.b. l.f.b., Perry Tarnowsky, r.f.b. r.f.b., Gilfian Parrot, l.h.b. l.h.b., Vibberts Wickersham, c.h.b. c.h.b., Russell, Lanchester MacKinnon, r.h.b. r.h.b., MacNeil, Saxon Driggs, o.l. o.l., Wier Gans, i.l. i.l., Fowler Small, Trevvett, c.f. c.f., Nestle Crooks, i.r. i.r., Braun Trevvett, Daniolan, o.r. o.r., McKillop...
...little knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, stood Defense Minister Gessler of the Reich, last week, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr, and some seventy of the highest officers of the German Army. Before them a body of infantry "advanced" toward the town in "war games." Lest the maneuvers should lack reality a battery of heavy machine guns, planted out of sight behind the officers, prepared to lay down a "protective barrage" before the infantry as it advanced...
Many years ago (in 680), a man child was born in an old Saxon family in Devonshire, and the child was christened Wynfrith. He studied at Exeter and early be-:ame a monk famed for his schollarship, his preaching. And he rook the name of Boniface...
...least harmful of all emphatic monosyllables solely for comic purposes. Writers like Mr. George Moore who perpetually deplore how foreign words and phrases are emasculating the English language, should be pleased to witness this reestablishment of words the lineage of which is as purely Anglo Saxon as that of any in the language...