Word: stratagem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner was this stratagem for maintaining the Dictator in power announced than the artillery officer's clique (whose prerogatives he has curtailed) fomented mutinies at Segovia and Valladolid...
...London the Baldwin eight hour stratagem evoked little enthusiasm from the man in the street; but of course, the present Government can put almost any program it chooses through Parliament...
Cuba's Week. President Machado signed last week a bill reducing the present sugar crop 10%, with penalties up to $2,000 a day for sugar producers who start grinding their crops before the late set by the government. Cubans hope by this stratagem to keep the price of sugar from slumping because of overproduction...
...translucent material shape, like an arm, cold and clammy (said one) "as an eel's heel," was seen, measured (against a radium-painted board) and felt. Warned that violence to this "emanation" would seriously injure the entranced medium, none of those present employed the obvious investigatory stratagem of seizing the ghostly arm and calling for lights...
...trick plays were a big advantage. They accounted for substantial gains and were seldom diagnosed by Harvard largely on account of the speed and precision with which they were executed. A Tiger back would turn, fake an exchange, turn again and plunge through a hole made vacant by the stratagem...