Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, but it has been a favorite of Harvard men all during the fifty old years of its life. For the past few years its status has been doubtful, and heretofore zoning regulations have effectively prevented the erection of any building such as is now contemplated. If they are overthrown in this Instance, a precedent will be set which will expose a large district adjoining the college to commercial development. Such a process of absorption of the residential areas of a growing city by the commercial is an old story, but there still remain in Cambridge many alternate regions...
...record of a young man. But the young man rose on this record. . . . The Tammany system goes on today as it went on 100 years ago and, indeed, as it will go on in our American cities unless Governor Smith and the sinister forces behind him are overthrown." Editor White...
...last Disraeli overturned Peel, and served in Lord Derby's new Cabinet. But when the Duke of Wellington, very old, very deaf, had the new list of Ministers read to him, he kept interrupting: "Who? Who?" whereupon they became known as the "Who? Who? Cabinet"; and were soon overthrown, Gladstone triumphant...
Russia's railroads were mortgaged by the Tsarist regime to fight Russia's battles. Many a U. S. citizen bought the bonds. Having overthrown the Tsarist regime, the Soviet repudiated all Tsarist debts. U. S. citizens sighed and put their Russian rail-road bonds away expecting never to think of them again except as quaint keepsakes...
...Kellogg evinced displeasure and let it be known that the negotiations would probably have to begin anew from original premises. From Paris a spiteful imputation was hurled by Le Quotidien: "In America it would be fine for the election prospects of the Republican party if, after having overthrown the work of Woodrow Wilson, they could pose as the real founders of peace among nations. . . . But why should France play that game?" That is to say, France may prefer to work for universal peace through the League of Nations, and not through a U. S.-sponsored "multilateral pact...