Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal troops captured Esperanza station on the Vera Cruz Railroad and extended their operation to Orizaka and Talapa. Rebel losses exceeded 2,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners. All these places are in the vicinity of the port of Vera Cruz, the rebel stronghold, which was threatened and which the Federals expected soon to occupy...
...Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, 1602-1622, in the days when the Calvinistic "heretics" had to be withstood. He was noted for the energy and zeal displayed in his missionary work in the province Chablais, a stronghold ot Calvinism. His practical advice to defenders of the Faith was given to the world in 1608, when he published his Introduction to the Devout Life...
...that it has been necessary to divide the $200 between the two originators, Henry Irving Dale of Andover, and Miss Kate L. Butler of Fields Corner. Despite the alleged unpopularity of the wets in the West and the many entries received from that section of the country, Massachusetts, the stronghold of anti-Volstead sentiment, has furnished the chosen epithet...
...group of Sophomores known as "Mr. Levinsky" have hoodwinked lower classmen from the mysterious stronghold, "Porter 1367," for several days, with a marvelous mind reading phenomenon. Their prestige is falling off, however, since the discovery of their domicile in Russell Hall...
Underwood. Quite different from the submarine jockeying for position that goes on among his Republican opponents and Democratic rivals, Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is out in the open with his candidacy. He toured Texas, the supposed stronghold of William G. Mc-Adbo, and at Nocona made this speech...