Word: reclaiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treaty that was going to insure the peace of Europe forever and ever, Amen. No celebrations marked the date. Instead, all eyes were on the man who had torn that document to shreds, Adolf Hitler. That day he was on a Bavarian mountain top directing a campaign to reclaim for the German Fatherland the Free City of Danzig, neutralized and placed in customs union with renascent Poland by the treaty-makers. As the Führers well-oiled propaganda machine went into high gear, as his high-powered Army stood by prepared, if need be, to enforce the Leader...
Without the interference of the Swiss Federal Government, the Bernese Interieur Department branch of vehicles & traffic, which office issued it, was asked consequently to reclaim Mr. Boca...
Already about its holy business in Ethiopia last week was a "Catholic Expeditionary Force," a mission headed by Archbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, 49, lately of Rhodes. Under this able Franciscan, Vatican-trained native missionaries, white priests and what the Protestants called "swarms of nuns" were pitching in to "reclaim" 5,000,000 Copts to the Catholic faith, with which the Ethiopian Coptic Church was allied in early times and again for a few years in the 17th Century. From Vatican City came report that Italy and the Church's C. E. F. will follow the British empire-building...
...have to concentrate on private practices for their livelihood. It is surely to be hoped that the persons who voiced objections two years ago when the school was made inactive will now come to the fore and make their protestations form the core of a concrete interest that will reclaim regional planning at Harvard from a limbo of tentative experimentation...
...taking off, crashed the plane, found a spy map in it, dressed up like French peasants, spent a night in Fontaineblean Palace with a lunatic caretaker, and run away in a dressmaker's truck. But when Joan does find out, it's too late late for her to reclaim her heart. The picture, incidentally, is at this point just well under...