Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalitiesWm. H. Wise, 1924 |
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... gave the Allied peoples the great stimulus of a single central hero to worship , a Foch . The diplomats screamed discreetly to get him to hurry the entry of the United States into the war ; yet under him Britain preserved just that atti ...
... gave the Allied peoples the great stimulus of a single central hero to worship , a Foch . The diplomats screamed discreetly to get him to hurry the entry of the United States into the war ; yet under him Britain preserved just that atti ...
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... gave the party meeting of Tories in the Carlton Club the support necessary to break the coalition and send Mr. Lloyd George from office . But before he fell he saw the achievement of an- other , his third great task for the British ...
... gave the party meeting of Tories in the Carlton Club the support necessary to break the coalition and send Mr. Lloyd George from office . But before he fell he saw the achievement of an- other , his third great task for the British ...
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... gave up his assured career in the British Civil Service , a career leading to years of respectable service and a com- fortable pension , to throw in his lot as a political manager with the political fortunes of Mr. Lloyd George . 52 ...
... gave up his assured career in the British Civil Service , a career leading to years of respectable service and a com- fortable pension , to throw in his lot as a political manager with the political fortunes of Mr. Lloyd George . 52 ...
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... gave the coup de grace to feudalism in England ; he made the successors of the feudal lords -the great industrial barons - carry a fairer share of the burden of the state that nourished them ; he roused the hewers of wood and the ...
... gave the coup de grace to feudalism in England ; he made the successors of the feudal lords -the great industrial barons - carry a fairer share of the burden of the state that nourished them ; he roused the hewers of wood and the ...
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... gave him an uneven elementary edu- cation , which he extended and deepened by wide read- ing of heroic tales and natural history , of science and biography . When he was nine he was taken through Europe , but , to judge from the journal ...
... gave him an uneven elementary edu- cation , which he extended and deepened by wide read- ing of heroic tales and natural history , of science and biography . When he was nine he was taken through Europe , but , to judge from the journal ...
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