Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, wishes to escape to his friends in Greece, there to overthrow the dictature of Pangalos. Per contra, Pangalos and others of his Greek enemies have been attempting to extradite him back into Greece, with the idea of trying and shooting him for "high treason"-against whom or what it is scarcely clear, since Pangalos himself is a decidedly supra-constitutional usurper...
...sensation was created when the notorious ultra-reactionary militarist, Captain Ehrhardt, was observed to be strolling about the lobbies of the Reichstag and conferring privately with the leaders of the Voelkische, the extreme-Right Ludendorff faction. Captain Ehrhardt not only led the famed Kapp Putsch, which attempted to overthrow the German Republic in March, 1920, but was so implicated in the assassination of the Ministers Erzberger and Rathenau that he was forced to flee from Germany until the passing of last year's amnesty law. Pressmen eagerly touted his appearance as a sign that his old adherents in Bavaria...
...almost no fixed regulations for a course of study, virtually no control and no restrictions on his life and work. Every student formulates his own course of study, and he may attend lectures or not as he wishes. Hence the revolution found no set scheme or plan to overthrow. The instructors kept on lecturing and the students kept on studying quite in the old manner...
...character of the regeneration of the European nations would seem to preclude the idea of European selfishness. Nevertheless, since the overthrow of the pre-war balance of power policy, these nations of the Occident begin to show strong signs of desiring to handle lesser powers in a very arbitrary fashion. The smaller nations which have overthrown monarchical rule and followed the example of Western civilization in adopting more or less democratic forms of government begin to be considered thorns in the sides of their greater sister nations. Now the big powers of Europe seem desirous of creating federations of small...
...Court of Tennessee a brief appealing his conviction. It outlined the final argument in the case. It tried to contest the issue which the prosecution first raised and then eluded in the first trial - the religious issue. It endeavored not only to reverse Teacher Scopes' judgment but to overthrow the Tennessee anti-evolution law, which latter was the original purpose of Scopes and his defenders, together with the vaguer purpose of educating the public upon the fact of evolution...