Word: war
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Another common error is in stating there were 13 colonies at the time of the Revolutionary war. Pennsylvania was not a colony of Great Britain in the same sense that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc., were colonies ruled by British. According to the charter granted William Penn his domain was a Province, owned entirely by Penn and his heirs until the time of the Revolutionary war, with the inhabitants paying rental or taxes to the Pern family. While the government con- trolled the Province by certain legislation yet Pennsylvania was a government by a Proprietor until the Declaration...
...President informally suggested that the Assistant Secreta- ries-for-Air of the War, Commerce and Navy Departments might in- vestigate transoceanic flying by civilians. Assistant Secretaries Davison, MacCracken and Warner met forthwith, decided that public opinion was a better deterent to foolhardiness than Government regulation...
Last week, after conferring with Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Army Engineers, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis told the President and the public that the five boards were rushing through "a two years' job in six months," would have their data ready for Congress "before it meets...
After the War, songwriters Al Dubin, Irving Mills, Jimmie McIlugh and Irwin Dash published a euphemistic parody, without continuity, called "Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo Vooo...
...state dinner, Premier Poincare reviewed the War, saying; "In the noble part you played you derived your inspiration not only from your sense of patriotism but from your feeling of honor . . . neither you nor we ourselves will allow that part to be travested." General Pershing said: "An army grows to have a personality, a soul, just like anything else, and fortunately the soul of the A. E. F. has passed into the Legion...