Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lift the yoke that bows the nations...
...that China has only recently come to the end of a period of customs tutelage by the Great Powers. For some 80 years they held her down to a general ad valorem duty of only 5%. Now that the young Nationalist Government has squirmed out from under this galling yoke, China might reasonably be expected to do much worse than she did last week - especially as in Oriental lands taxation is usually based upon no other consideration than what the traffic will bear...
...down depressed Germany, promising Prosperity if given enough votes to do two things: 1) replace Germany's "do nothing" Reichstag and President by a Dictator (presumably the "wild man"); 2) Repudiate Germany's obligations under the Young Plan, thus lifting "from bowed and bloody German backs the galling Reparations yoke...
...Navy, in signal flags over the proscenium of the National Geographic Society's auditorium: "Yoke, William, X-ray." (Translation: "Well done...
Etruscan Hero's Tomb. Princess Luciano Bonaparte owns land at Vulci, Etruscan community near Rome. Etruscan tombs underlie the whole vicinity. Recently, watching her peasants plowing, she saw a yoke of oxen sprawl into the ground. After extricating the animals, searchers found a series of unknown, unrifled tombs. Chief among them was that of an Etruscan hero, shrouded in blue and white gauze, with his little possessions around him, even a branch of laurel, still green. A coin in the tomb dated it about the 3rd century...