Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rough Riders. A Cuban maid pursued by a sinister Spaniard, menacing, evil-minded. . . Another Spaniard in a rowboat, a lighted cigaret waved three times in the night blackness. . . Someone throws a switch and the Maine is blown up. Thus the film records the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Paramount discovered one Frank Hopper, book-agent, who looks like Theodore Roosevelt. He is shown ordering the mobilization of the fleet during the absence of his superior, Secretary of the Navy Long...
...American commanders in Chinese waters lose their heads as the majority of the American newspapers seem, to have lost theirs over the Nanking crisis this country will be involved in a war in China whose outcome will be very different from that of the Boxer outbreak 25 years...
...outbreak of the Great War he obtained a commission in the medical service and spent three years fighting in the tropical climate of South and East Africa. During his stay there he contracted malaria and found after the war that he was unable to live in England because of the climate and unable to continue his medical work because it was too great a strain. As a consequence of this he retired to the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples in 1918, where he has been studying and writing since...
President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University spent several hours last week sitting among newsgatherers in a Cambridge police court. Many another famed son of Harvard was there with him. Blood and eggs had stained Harvard Square in the largest town-and-gown outbreak of recent years (TIME, Feb. 21). Thirty-three students and six "townies" were on trial for disturbing the peace. Distinguished counsel argued counter-charges against the Cambridge police, who had, complained the riotous students, been unnecessarily brutal with their nightsticks. Nothing more serious than fines and reprimands promised to result from the hearings, but the testimony...
...Shortly afterwards Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen, another great liberal, published a similar book. With the outbreak of the revolution of 1911, his work spread among the uprising student class. His general proved a traitor to the cause and established himself as ruler. Anarchy followed. Had he built up a strong government for the people, one years of turmoil in China would have been avoided...