Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Commander Ellsberg conducted the salvage operations on the submarines S-51 and S-4 while Count Luckner is best known for his raiding of 17 Allied ships during the war without killing or injuring a man. Ellsberg has encountered many dangers in his 14 years of experience in salvage work, when diving to direct operations on sunken vessels. For his work in the salvaging of the S-51 he has been awarded the distinguished Service Medal...
Yesterday morning students in one of the largest courses in American history took part in an educational experiment new at least to most of the students concerned. With the era preceding the outbreak of the Civil War as the topic of the lecture, the professor offered a half hour's debate with two history instructors as the proponents of abolition and slavery. The two went at the subject and each other hammer and tongs, according to the purpose of the experiment--to reproduce as accurately as might be the debates of the '40's and '50's, portraying the prejudices...
...must be admitted that the orators showed themselves not only scholars but actors of no mean histrionic ability. The thirty-minute harangue was enjoyed by the students. Furthermore the causes for the Civil War now are far better understood by the class than any amount of reading could perhaps have made them...
...never really thought of following it up professionally then, but during the war when I was in Vienna, all dances and theatre performances were called off. The only thing that continued was the opera, and if we sought amusement that was where we had to go. I went every night, and that is when I developed the taste for my career. But it was not until I saw a performance of "Tristan and Isolde" that something absolutely changed in me and showed me my way in life. That was when 1 was 16. Since then I have folowed my present...
...League and Locarno covenants which it has found unacceptable, its own plan for universal peace. In this connection Senator Borah has written, "It is safe to prophesy that the United States will never become identified or cooperate with a system for peace based upon, 'pledges to wage war'." Unwilling, in other words, to assist in the forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect, the United States still wishes to protect her prosperity by exchanging paper promises of peace with other powers. It is explained that this multilateral pact does not interfore with the League covenant or other...