Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Chiang Kai-shek ordered a $1,000,000 "credit for war supplies" placed at the disposal of his field commander in Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-lian...
Most nations start recruiting at the threat of war, but China has had too many soldiers for so long that last week, as Red Russia menaced her from the North, she girded for battle partly by cutting out wasteful soldier deadwood from her armies in the South, which is not likely to be threatened...
...Ford last week bought for a reputed price of $10,000 the 200-acre Vaucluse gold mine in Orange County, Va., never profitably worked since pre-Civil War days...
...education at Berlin, Heidelberg or Güttingen, were as interested as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia's president, in a report which he issued last week in behalf of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (of which he is also president). It was a report comparing pre-War and post-War enrollments in the German colleges. It could be tabulated as follows...
...War Now Evangelical theology 3,875 2,100 Catholic theology 1,900 1,600 Medicine 15,500 8,500 Dental surgery 700 1,700 Chemistry 900 2,300 Philosophy 12,300 13,000 Political economy 2,300 6,700 Law 9,800 18,700 Electrical engineering.... 900 4,000 Mechanical engineering...