Word: upon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Centralia, Wash., in 1919, crowds attacked an I.W.W. hall, were fired upon. Result: four dead, seven imprisoned for 25 to 40 years. Last September the last imprisoned member of the I.W.W. was released...
...therefore, but natural that when the second great war of this century descended upon us this autumn, the British Government should have hesitated to imperil so priceless a possession by trusting it to the angry transit of the seas...
...History has many curious and circuitous passages-many winding stairways which return upon themselves-but none more curious than the turn of time which brings the Great Charter of the English to stand across this gallery from the two great charters of American freedom...
Unlike their occupation of Poland, where they marched in upon the rear of an already demoralized foe, this attack was upon a well-prepared, straight-shooting, determined people facing front. It was at least 2,000,000 trained men and 5,000 airplanes against 200,000 trained men and 150 airplanes, but the tough-fibred Finns provided a test for the Red war machine which the rest of the world watched intently. From the outset it was apparent that the Reds could not match the Nazis at Blitzkrieg...
...People's Government's" declaration read a stern lesson to the Helsinki Government, outlined an ambitious program and called upon all Finns to "chase these hangmen" from Finland...