Word: overran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conquered Galicia for Austria, overran Serbia. In 1916 he occupied Rumania. In 1917 he smashed the Russian armies, opened the way to the Black Sea. Only the collapse of the Western Front and the Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military...
...Iceland was discovered by the Irish sometime after 800 A.D. A generation or so later when the Norsemen (from Norway, not from Denmark) overran Ireland, they learned from the Irish about the colony which they had already established in Iceland...
...powerful touch football team of the Staplers Club overran the Fourth Estate aggregation yesterday to take a 30 to 12 victory, thereby moving up to second place in the league, and dropping the Fourth Estate to the bottom of the standing. Games today will be played as follows: the Staplers Club vs. the Trident Club, Kappa Sigma vs. Sigma Alpha Mu. Alpha Sigma Phi vs. the Fourth Estate...
From October, 1926, when the Neosho River overran its banks in Kansas and Oklahoma to last week when the Mississippi attacked levees in southern Louisiana, flood conditions have prevailed in the Mississippi Valley. Since the middle of April the Mississippi has been on the greatest flood of its history. Last week best estimates of the situation gave the following summary...
...episcopal motto: Apostolus Jesu Christi. A year later he got the red hat of Cardinal and the pastorate of Saint-Pierre-és-Liens, ancient church symbolical of religious fidelity and intrepidity among persecutions, fidelity and intrepidity which he needed and had when, in 1914, the Germans overran Belgium. Practically imprisoned in his palace, yet he sent out pastoral letters to the two and a half million faithful in his see, urging them to patriotism and endurance. German chiefs writhed before his exclamations; respected him; could testify upon their final withdrawal: "You embody to us occupied Belgium, of which...