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During and immediately after World War I there was a movement spearheaded by President Wilson and other eminent people to inculcate patriotism in American school children, especially immigrants, and to stress the American connection with the literature and institutions of the " mother country " of Great Britain, using selected readings in middle school textbooks.
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500-2000 ( 1987 ), stress on economic and military factors
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Under the stress of the Great Depression the company slipped into bankruptcy in 1935, remaining in trusteeship until 1947.
The stress on personal piety opened the way for the First Great Awakening, which pulled people away from the established church.
Though Bellamy tended to stress the independence of his work, Looking Backward shares relationships and resemblances with several earlier works — most notably the anonymous The Great Romance ( 1881 ), John Macnie's The Diothas ( 1883 ), Laurence Gronlund's The Co-operative Commonwealth ( 1884 ), and August Bebel's Woman in the Past, Present, and Future ( 1886 ).
The NNL finally fell apart in 1931 under the economic stress of the Great Depression.
Great stress is laid on the reputation for ingratitude and breach of faith which the abolition of immunities would bring upon the state.
The Imperial Japanese Navy sent the Japanese-built cruiser Ikoma ( which was anchored at Gravesend in Kent ) to underscore that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was primarily a naval alliance and to stress that Japan was a formidable military power worthy of partnership with Great Britain.
Great stress was placed on geniality and praise was placed on man for being a good mixer.

Great and is
He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.
Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.
The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.
So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.
Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.
But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.
I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.
As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.
The Great Train Robbery is a one-reel film.
The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.
Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.
In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.
For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.
Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.
However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

Great and placed
There, a new robe of woven wool ( peplos ) was placed on either the statue of Athena Polias in the Erechtheum ( during a regular Panathenaea ) or on the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon ( during the Great Panathenaea, held every four years ).
() According to the book of Leviticus, blood from sacrificed animals may only be placed on the altar of the Great Temple in Jerusalem ( which no longer existed at the time of the Christian blood libels ).
It was the threat of the expanding Russian Empire beginning to push for an advantage in the Afghanistan region that placed pressure on British India, in what became known as the " Great Game ".
Due to its outward similarity to the Razorbill ( apart from flightlessness and size ), the Great Auk was often placed in the genus Alca, following Linnaeus.
He ordered the removal of an image of Jesus prominently placed over the Chalke gate, the ceremonial entrance to the Great Palace of Constantinople, and its replacement with a cross.
Great emphasis also was placed on speech and debate ; Madison helped found the American Whig – Cliosophic Society, in direct competition to fellow student Aaron Burr's Cliosophic Society.
Great emphasis is placed on the control of internal thoughts, as they influence the behavior, actions and goals.
Great care is taken that no AC-grounded appliances are placed on the racks, as a single AC ground connection to the technical ground will destroy its effectiveness.
Whilst Edward mobilised his own faction and placed Leeds castle under siege, Isabella was given the Great Seal and assumed control of the royal Chancery from the Tower of London.
Her Duke Ellington Songbook placed Ellington firmly in the canon known as the Great American Songbook, and the 1960s saw Fitzgerald and the ' Duke ' meet on the Côte d ' Azur for the 1966 album Ella and Duke at the Cote D ' Azur, and in Sweden for The Stockholm Concert, 1966.
* Great emphasis is placed on self-efficacy ( cf.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has also placed many permanent anchorage points around the general use areas.
The aircraft was returned to Kuybyshev in 1975, and was placed on display at the intersection of two major roads as a symbol of the deeds of home front servicemen and air-force pilots during the Great Patriotic War.
To bring attention to the highway, Fisher commissioned statues of Abraham Lincoln, titled The Great Emancipator, to be placed in key locations along the route of the highway.
During Shōmu's reign, the Tōdai-ji ( literally Eastern Great Temple ) was built, and within it was placed the Great Buddha Daibutsu ; a sixteen-metre-high, gilt-bronze statue.
* 743: Emperor Shōmu issues a rescript to build the Daibutsu ( Great Buddha ), later to be completed and placed in Tōdai-ji, Nara
Though seen as a Baby Doozer in " The Great Radish Famine ," she was introduced in " All Work and All Play " when she rejected the pressure placed on her to take the helmet, and ran away to become a Fraggle.
In a letter Rüstow wrote that Hayek and his master Mises deserved to be put in spirits and placed in a museum as one of the last surviving specimen of the extinct species of liberals which caused the current catastrophe ( the Great Depression ).
Having read Suslyga's work, Kepler noted that Christ was born during the reign of King Herod the Great ( 2: 1 – 18 ), whose death he placed in 4 BC.
In 2000, Beulah Tingley was declared a " Great Floridian " by the state and a plaque attesting to that honor was placed above the front door of the library.
Fox contributed to the peaceful resolution of these entanglements, and gained a new admirer in Catherine the Great, who bought a bust of Fox and placed it between Cicero and Demosthenes in her collection.
Each was placed near an important body of water-in Nyborg's case, the Great Belt ( Storebælt ).
The Great Staircase to the east of the Marble Hall is unusually placed at Belton, as in a house of this period one would expect to find the staircase in the hall.

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