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By the spring of 1918, the commission had several teams.
He studied chemical engineering and graduated in the spring of 1918.
The high command under Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff increasingly controlled the Reich as they gambled on one last offensive in spring 1918 ( before the Americans could arrive in force ).
With no viable career options, Bogart followed his love for the sea and enlisted in the United States Navy in the spring of 1918.
In the spring of 1918, he joined the Yugoslav section of the Russian Communist Party.
Weber himself had a significant influence on Mises, whom he had befriended when they were both at the University of Vienna in the spring of 1918, and, through Mises, on several other economists associated with the Austrian School in the 20th century.
Having passed his exams, Mao graduated from the school in the spring of 1918.
In spring 1918, during a brief period of economic liberalism prior to the introduction of war communism, and again during the New Economic Policy ( NEP ) of 1921, Lenin justified the introduction of state capitalism controlled politically by the dictatorship of the proletariat to further central control and develop the productive forces:
In the spring of 1918 he left Metro and joined Bluebird Productions, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, where he met Irving Thalberg.
Planning for a massive spring offensive in 1918, it resumed the sinking of all merchant ships without warning.
The German spring offensives of 1918 failed, and with gthe arrival of the American in summer at the rate of 10, 000 a day the Germans realized they were being overwhelmed.
Grand Duchesses Tatiana, left, and Olga Nikolaevna, far right, with their mother, Tsarina Alexandra, center, in captivity at Tobolsk in the spring of 1918
He remained on Foch's staff when his patron was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the spring of 1918, and was Foch's right-hand man throughout his victory at the Second Marne ( for which Foch was promoted Marshal of France ) in the late summer and until the end of the war.
She and other members of the household performed plays for the enjoyment of their parents and others in the spring of 1918.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna in captivity at Tobolsk in the spring of 1918.
* Herwig, Holger H. Operation Michael: The “ Last Card ” ( 2001 ), German spring offensive in 1918
The Liberal Party finally split openly during the Maurice Debate in 1918, at which Lloyd George was accused ( almost certainly correctly ) of hoarding manpower in the UK to prevent Haig from launching any fresh offensives ( e. g. Passchendaele, 1917 ), possibly with a view to sending more troops to Palestine or Italy instead, and thus contributing to Allied weakness during the temporarily successful German offensives of spring 1918, in which British casualties were actually heavier than in their own offensives the previous year.
He went on and in the spring of 1918 won the state track meet in the 1 / 2 mile and second place in the mile race.
The New York Giants baseball team ( now the San Francisco Giants ) held spring training in Marlin from 1908 to 1918.
* Marlin was the spring training site of John McGraw's New York Giants from 1908 to 1918.
The first division to train at Camp Funston, the 89th, sailed for France in the spring of 1918.
Though judged unprepared by French tacticians, the American Expeditionary Force ( AEF ) was committed to combat in the spring of 1918 in a desperate attempt to halt a German advance toward Paris.
By the start of spring 1918, the Russian Civil War began to ignite around the rest of the country, and the Soviet government had much more urgent needs for leaders: it reassigned Aleksandr Kolchak on the Volga and Anton Denikin in the south.
Vanessa very much wanted a child by Duncan, and became pregnant in the spring of 1918.

spring and French
During the spring of 1798, Bonaparte assembled over 35, 000 soldiers in Mediterranean France and Italy and developed a powerful fleet at Toulon ; he also formed the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a body of scientists and engineers intended to establish the French colony in Egypt.
With his opponents defeated, Captain Gould on Audacious used the spring on his cable to transfer fire to Spartiate, the next French ship in line.
Almost immediately, French forces faced defeat on many fronts, and were driven out of their newly conquered territories in the spring of 1793.
As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.
In the spring and summer of 1939, Ribbentrop used Bonnet's alleged statement to convince Hitler that France would not go to war in the defence of Poland, despite the frequent denials by Bonnet that he ever made such a statement ( which would not have been legally binding even had Bonnet had made the alleged statement ; only a formal renunciation of the Franco-Polish treaty by the French National Assembly would end the French commitment to Poland ).
" In the spring of 1797, he held four confidential talks with the French consul Joseph Letombe.
It is not as strongly aromatic and flavorsome as its French cousin, but it produces many more leaves from early spring onwards that are mild and good in salads and cooked food.
After a quiet period of " phoney war ", the French and British armies collapsed under German onslaught in spring 1940.
In the spring of 1734 French maneuvers successfully flanked this line, and Prince Eugene of Savoy ( who, despite being a Savoyard, fought on the Austrian side ) was forced to withdraw these forces to the imperial encampment at Heilbronn.
The British harassed French shipping throughout 1755, seizing ships and capturing seamen, contributing to the eventual formal declarations of war in spring 1756.
Frederick Augustus was mistrustful of Prussia in view of the experiences of the spring and arguably disappointed as well by Austria's decision not to join the Coalition immediately, especially while the country was exposed as before to French domination.
In the spring allied commanders had been concerned about the ability of the French army to withstand the enormous losses at Verdun.
The easier transportation system has stimulated the purchase of holiday homes by people from major cities from the French West, and up to Paris, who can visit for week-ends, mostly in spring and summer.
It can thus be seen as a term for " bejewelling ", in which sense it is used in modern French: Le diaprure des prés au printemps, the diapering of the spring fields ( with flowers ).
By the spring of 1666, the Dutch had rebuilt their fleet with much heavier ships — thirty of them possessing more cannon than any Dutch ship in early 1665 — and threatened to join with the French.
* In spring 2002, on-air staff in Quebec and Moncton ( again, on both English and French networks ) were locked out by local management, leaving, among other things, NHL playoff games without commentary on French television.
Translated into English by American Thomas Whitney, the English and French translations of Volume I appeared in the spring and summer of 1974.
The French responded in the spring of 1346 with a massive counter-attack against Aquitaine, where an army under John, Duke of Normandy, besieged Derby at Aiguillon.
Between the spring of 1981 and early 1982 he handed almost 4, 000 secret documents over to the French, including the complete official list of 250 Line X KGB officers stationed under legal cover in embassies around the world, before being arrested in February 1982 and executed in 1983.
The French offensive against the Chemin des Dames in spring 1917 is sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of the Aisne.
The Affiche Rouge ( red placard ) is a famous propaganda poster that was distributed by the Vichy France | Vichy French and German authorities in the spring of 1944 in Military history of France during World War II | occupied Paris.
From spring 1943, German and Austrian anti-fascists, who had fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, fought in Lozère and in the Cévennes alongside the French Résistance in the Francs-tireurs et Partisans.

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