How To Use First world war In A Sentence
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It was built as a Methodist chapel in 1910, became a convalescence hospital during the First World War, and was later partly used as a billiard hall.
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My father, who fought in the First World War, described fear as not so much a sick feeling as a heightening of the senses.
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Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
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Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
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It was famously sung in the trenches of the First World War by Welsh regiments to keep their spirits up, and it's a firm favourite with Welsh rugby crowds.
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It is perhaps apocalyptic only in its contiguity with the chaos of actual war and the apocalypse of the First World War.
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His social radicalism took shape after the First World War.
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‘What a very boring man, obsessed with the first world war,’ he says, all self-mockery, behind his cluttered desk in Private Eye's defiantly unmodernised Soho townhouse.
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After the First World War the coverage of unemployment insurance was extended and a contributory pension scheme was introduced.
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Each passing year leaves us with fewer veterans of the First World War to describe eye-witness accounts of the horror, bravery and comradeship at the front.
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The Treaty of Versailles, one of the peace settlements signed at the end of the First World War, required that Germany pay the Allies large sums of money as reparations for the damage caused by the war.
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A tremendous boom in cinema building and conversion took place during the next few years and continued unabated until the First World War, by which time there were about 3,500.
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Coventry developed from a significant centre of production to a centre of motor car activity by the beginning of the First World War.
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At the outbreak of the first world war, she was perfectly equipped for a role in intelligence.
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During the First World War, he was a conscientious objector and worked on road-digging and similar tasks.
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There are a couple of dozen tombstones, a memorial to men who died in the First World War.
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After the First World War, passenger numbers declined, as road transport improved but freight traffic remained buoyant.
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The Fascists had their roots in bitterly anticlerical Italian radical nationalism, Mussolini himself having been a Socialist leader until the First World War.
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During the First World War, the symbol of the Red Cross was seen as inviolable.
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He seemed to assume, for example, if Russia withdrew unilaterally from the first world war, German soldiers would begin to fraternise with their former opponents and would be therefore moved to stop fighting.
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In the first world war attempts were made to infect horses with glanders, and throughout history invading armies have poisoned wells and other water sources.
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At Wembley, still seeking low-gear fitness, at times he brought to mind not so much a young Alan Shearer as the old Alan Shearer, a single pummelling shooting boot, to be unpackaged and wheeled about the park like a rust-bound first world war field gun.
England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay
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The first world war brought a conquering South African army.
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The often bestial conditions in the trenches of the First World War were thought to have permitted the manufacture of only the crudest items.
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When the First World War broke out he was in Budapest where he was interned as a Russian.
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The balance of evidence suggests the Liberal party's decline began before the First World War.
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Jumping back and forth in time, the play follows the couple's romance and Charlie's misadventures in the First World War.
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She was rebuilt into her present form at Cowlairs works in 1915 and served on the continent during the First World War.
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It was Armistice Day, when two minutes' silence is observed in remembrance of the dead in the first world war.
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The short volume is composed of a set of lectures that Keegan, author of such magisterial works as The First World War and Fields of Battle, wrote in 1988 for the British Broadcasting System.
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It's also unsurprising that after the nightmare of the first world war, so many people around the world were inclined, in an era of modernism, to imagine peace in universalist terms.
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Pre-first world war photographs and cine film show diverse peoples living in harmony yet in the shadow of increasing militarism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Who was the UK General in the First World War who rose from the ranks - dispelling the idea that Edwardian Britain wasn't a meritocracy?
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It was one response to the powerful tide of socialist, anticlerical thought, particularly powerful at the end of the First World War.
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In 1918 the world had been ravaged by the First World War.
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It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow.
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During the First World War it housed Belgian refugees, who made sabot clogs in the workshop of Arthur Simpson, renowned furniture designer and wood-carver.
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Uncle Charlie had been in the trenches in the First World War and come back ‘shell shocked.’
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It's this return of former colonial powers to the Arab world to reclaim oil concessions in Libya, following the occupation of Iraq, that has led Gamal Abdel Nasser's former confidant Mohamed Heikal to talk recently of the threat of an effective new "Sykes-Picot agreement" – the carve-up between Britain and France after the first world war – and a redivision of spoils in the region.
Egypt has halted the drive to derail the Arab revolution | Seumas Milne
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He survived 28 crashes and shot down 40 German planes in just three months in the First World War.
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AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR, ACCORDING TO plans laid during it, France became the mandatary power, under the League of Nations, in what today is Syria and Lebanon.
Shedding Light on Lebanon
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He was sickened when, just months later, vandals desecrated the memorial, built to commemorate villagers who fought in the First World War.
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Revisionists would say that the romanticism of the chroniclers' reverie for that era was coloured by nostalgia for the generation lost in the first world war that choked their critical senses but the glory of Cardus's prose outweighs almost all quibbles.
VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age
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Keitel, a professional soldier, served as an artillery officer on the Western Front during the First World War and then as a staff officer.
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As disseminated in America since the First World War, the term 'musicology' [1] borrows directly from musicologie, coined by the French during the last third of the nineteenth century as a less-than-scintillating translation of the more encompassing German Musikwissenschaft.
A Musicological Offering
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The first world war put paid to the great house feasts because the servants disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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These had expanded in intensity after the First World War, with extensive housing development in the areas served.
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The Queen and Prince Charles led tributes to the founder member of the Royal Air Force, who was also involved in the greatest naval clash of the first world war, the Battle of Jutland.
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The name was a hangover from the First World War, when the larger mortars were employed to lay down smoke or gas.
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A collection of short stories, On the Yankee Station, appeared in 1981 and was followed by An Ice-Cream War, a serio-comic tale set in East Africa during the First World War.
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But the First World War shocked even him, and that was probably a climacteric.
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That's their proper name and I slieve the Kennel Club have brought it in When they were brought here from armany after the First World War there was a It of anti-German feeling -- hence we used the iphemism "alsatian".
Put On By Cunning
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This is something that was clearly present with the Dadaists, as with the Futurists, both Italian and Russian, around the time of the first world war, and it began to take new and very dynamic forms after the second war.
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The symbolism was no accident: the film represented a new Germany, reborn and free of suffering on the First World War cross of defeat and humiliation.
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Following the First World War, in the 1920s and early 1930s, the cocktail party flourished, with flappers and frivolity going hand in hand.
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Several diary writers have claimed credit for the idea, which could even derive from the First World War trenches.
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After a short interregnum, May Day was once again the centre of worldwide protest after the First World War.
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November 24 will signal the end of the outdated licensing system, which dates back to the First World War.
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Some were installed for mountaineers, to ease the approaches to climbs, and some to facilitate the passage of troops during the First World War.
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The theatre of war looms large in France's film culture and this First World War prison drama, based on a true story, was long hailed as one of the greatest films ever made.
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My dad served in the trenches in the First World War and my mum's brother was killed on the Somme.
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The mill was demolished after the First World War. It had an overshot waterwheel of 15 feet diameter.
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But the combination, at one particular point, of sizzling striplights, medieval religious chants and khaki-clad first world war tommies produced a feeling of sensory and aural overload.
King Lear – review
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Jules et Jim is an epic of inconsequence, the historical sweep of the first world war and the rise of nazism reduced to interruptions to the enigmatic potentialities of private life.
Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood
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In the First World War it was a rendezvous point for convoys travelling to Norway.
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His experiences in the First World War drove him mad.
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In his Short History of the 20th Century, the historian Eric Hobsbawm dates the true beginning of the 20th century from the outbreak of the First World War.
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After the First World War it employed ex-servicemen and ordered new rolling stock in large quantities in order to strengthen the national industry.
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Given that two of these three plays were seized by the police in 1916, it also suggests it took more courage to question the first world war than it does to criticise our present-day barbarities.
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The 69-year-old photograph shows him arriving in Beirut in the aftermath of the First World War.
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These people were mercenaries mostly recruited from the ranks of soldiers who had served in the first world war.
Times, Sunday Times
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The First World War slaughtered a whole generation.
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Diaghilev, in accordance with decadent tradition, drank champagne during the first world war, and made do with his own plots and incendiaries.
Diaghilev: Lord of the dance
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You have to go back to before the First World War when the then Liberal party held the reins of power in the city.
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After the outbreak of the First World War, he served successively in the Foreign Office's western, war, and contraband departments.
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Coventry developed from a significant centre of production to a centre of motor car activity by the beginning of the First World War.
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The first world war put paid to the great house feasts because the servants disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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The history of wing walking dates back to 1920s America, when a surplus of aeroplanes after the First World War encouraged soldiers who had been flying in battle to buy them cheaply and go "barnstorming", the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight.
The art of aerobatic wing walking
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We have with us Corporal Ernest Whitfield Jones, decorated for valour in the Somme in 1917, invalided from the trenches in the second gas attack of the First World War, only to return three months later and serve his remaining time on the front lines.
Poppies and Ghosts « A Fly in Amber
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The building was ideated by Ugo Giusti, before the beginning of the First World War, and it was ended in 1923.
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Shortage of building materials after the First World War caused a renewal of the industry.
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He challenged contemporary taste by his use of colloquialism and free verse, and became the principal among the authors writing in Chicago during and after the First World War.
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His artistic character was sealed by his experiences of the First World War.
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After the First World War he became a member of the Labour Party and stood as its candidate in two elections.
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I opened a book and quickly skimmed information about the first World War.
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Although no longer used commercially, it was apparently put to occasional use grinding corn up to the start of the First World War.
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Tolkien was said to have based the battle scenes on his own experiences in the trenches of the First World War.
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The title takes its name from a William Blake poem that was turned into an English hymn to give hope to soldiers fighting in the bleak first World War, and there's a mythological strain that runs through the play's three acts.
Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Jerusalem, Fleet Foxes, and Living in Havana
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Perhaps that's why he has such a lived-in face, the sort you saw long ago on young First World War soldiers returning old from the trenches.
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He served as a naval officer in the First World War and by 1945 was the best-known marine artist in Britain.
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The name was a hangover from the First World War, when the larger mortars were employed to lay down smoke or gas.
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A hero of the epic Battle of Jutland in the first world war, when his light cruiser fired the first shots after signalling an enemy in sight, the admiral was given the honour in 1918 of leading the defeated German High Seas fleet into the Royal Navy's base at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands.
British warships sunk 90 years ago found off Estonian coast
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It has an ageless quality, perhaps because it was written by an old man in a decade (the eighties) in which poetic reflections on the First World War were not a common theme for novels.
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Indeed, since the First World War, the development of archaeology has accelerated dramatically.
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This time it's Chal Chal Alayea El Rumman, a song about a pomegranate and a lemon tree that is, in fact, a political lament that relates to the end of the first world war.
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The use of light locomotives on the estate railways became more widespread after the First World War.
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The poets of the First World War were not so much antiwar as antiheroism.
Versed in the Horror of War
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During the First World War and the interwar years, however, growth slowed.
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This sombre celebration was introduced after the First World War, to mark and honour the day on which the guns fell silent on the Western Front and the slaughter stopped in 1918.
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For 80 years the statue, erected after the first world war, has, with magnificent hauteur, turned his behind on the traffic that boils up where London's Park Lane debouches into Piccadilly and Knightsbridge.
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But Mr. Houghton had fought in the First World War alongside both Americans and French, and had come - by who knows what illogic? - to a settled detestation of both countries.
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One first world war pillbox was monitored, as were over 40 second world war examples.
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After the First World War Germany conceded a lot of land to her neighbours.
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In the First World War pneumonia was as deadly as bullets and shells.
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The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war.
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The British foreign secretary who announced, on the eve of the first world war, that the lamps were going out all over Europe and would not be lit again in his lifetime made an on-the-spot epochal judgment that was vindicated by history.
George Osborne's autumn statement speaks to the public mood | Martin Kettle
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Many of the "conchies" in the First World War were imprisoned in Richmond Castle, North Yorkshire.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
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These robotically operated shelves of objects relate to different periods in history, the First World War for example.
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Since the end of the First World War, strong secularist tendencies have been evident.
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In 1904, its price was $10 – $15 per mg and just before the First World War, it escaladed to the astronomical price of $180.5 Radium showed up as a consumer commodity in luminous watches; in women's lotions and creams; in toothpastes, cigarettes, and radium condoms; in ointments for medical use; and in food, drinks, clothing, and endless medical products.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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The first world war brought a conquering South African army.
Times, Sunday Times
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My Opa could remember hours spent at kindergarten unravelling jumpers to provide wool for socks for First World War soldiers in the trenches.
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It was these national rivalries that eventually touched off the First World War.
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His experience of the First World War disillusioned him with conventional cultural and moral values.
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These people were mercenaries mostly recruited from the ranks of soldiers who had served in the first world war.
Times, Sunday Times
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He studied fine art at Nebraska University, completing his degree after service in the army in the First World War.
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This is the first of what is to be a trilogy on the First World War.
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In the trenches during the First World War, two foot-soldiers come upon the unconscious figure of an officer.
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The theatre of war looms large in France's film culture and this First World War prison drama, based on a true story, was long hailed as one of the greatest films ever made.
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In the period before the First World War, deltiology was the largest collecting hobby.
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What had been considered shell shock in the first World War, presumably due to petechial hemorrhages in the brain, became battle fatigue, then war neuroses, during World War 2.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1
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He was a Harwich shipmaster and First World War hero executed by the Germans.
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Before the First World War, Belgian political life was dominated by rivalry between Catholics and the nonconfessional and at times anticlerical Liberals.
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Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
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By the standards of the First World War, he was lenient in his punishments, and was rebuked by his commander for his softness in this respect.
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As the country invaded its neighbour in a bid to retrieve disputed territory, the region witnessed the kind of fighting that would not have seemed out of place in Flanders during the first world war.
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She was born, the fourth of five children of Edward and his music-loving wife Rose, nee Crook, at the close of the first world war in Coleford, on the edge of the Forest of Dean, not far from Newnham, where Denis's maternal grandfather was the stationmaster, signalman and ticket collector.
Edna Healey obituary
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To compound whatever he saw or experienced in the trenches of the First World War, the man was an alcoholic and a drug addict.
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Never since the first world war have we had homeless teenage children begging in the streets.
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They also hold the enlistment papers for First World War Royal Navy ratings and some Royal Marines.
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Did the first world war veterans who suffered unspeakable horrors expect compensation?
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His father's father fought in the First World War, while his grandfather on his mother's side saw service in the Boer War.
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It's a little terraced house, built in the early 19th century and remodelled during the first world war for W J Bassett-Lowke, the toymaker celebrated for his model ships.
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Outside the doors of these mansions and stately English homes, the First World War is brewing.
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Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
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An irredentist nationalist, he effectively urged the entry of Italy into the First World War on the side of the Allies, and himself took part in spectacular exploits by sea and air.
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During the First World War he served as an intelligence officer in the navy but was invalided out in 1917, and spent a year working on dazzle camouflage for ships in Liverpool and Bristol.
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It was these national rivalries that eventually touched off the First World War.
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The Nineties price war was like the First World War - you were slogging it out for minuscule movements of market share.
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Earl Haig's war dispatches mention his exemplary service to King and country as a lieutenant colonel during the First World War.
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This system worked well until the First World War when many countries overprinted money in relation to their gold reserves in order to meet the extraordinary economic demands at that time.
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After the First World War Germany conceded a lot of land to her neighbours.
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He was far too hard headed and realistic to permit the needless throwing away of lives in the ill-conceived offensives that characterised the First World War.
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they called the first World War an Armageddon
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He served with distinction in the First World War.
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He recorded symphonies by the abstruse Robert Simpson; a series of unplayed Victorian concertos; music by Cecil Coles, killed in the First World War.
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The fearful price we had had to pay in human life and blood for the great offensives of the First World War was graven in my mind.
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In the two short years before the outbreak of the first World War he was able with a team of collaborators to round off his investigations into chlorophyll and, in connexion with that, to complete some work on haemoglobin and, in rapid succession, to carry out his studies of anthocyanes, the colouring matter of flowers and fruits.
Richard Willstätter - Biography
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The first tax-free savings certificates appeared during the First World War to raise fighting funds.
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After art school he served in the trenches throughout the First World War, an experience which produced one of his major works and left him with a lifelong interest in warfare and soldiers.
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My great uncles fought in the trenches in the first world war and my father's generation were involved in the second world war.
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Britain used mustard gas and white phosphorus incendiaries in the First World War, along with Germany and France.
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Mustafa Kemal, as he was formerly known, came to prominence during the First World War as the general who, at Gallipoli, defeated the Allied invasion attempt.
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The First World War boosted pacifism among Baptists as well as among other Christian communions.
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Before the First World War, the short story was detective fiction's predominant literary form.
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It certainly is an evocative month for visiting Flanders, where the flower of European youth died in a morass of mud and blood in the First World War.
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It was the main loser in both territory and population from the First World War.
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First World War remembrance was never that tub-thumping in the first place.
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This was the real cause of the horrendous bloodbath of the First World War.
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Their original plan had been to emigrate to Lyme Regis, but an ill-fated pregnancy and the First World War intervened.
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The first world war put paid to the great house feasts because the servants disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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It could even replace the traditional green-and-brown camouflage splotches used on military equipment since the First World War.
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The Carl Rosa company presents Franz Lehar's light opera set in the heady Paris of the Moulin Rouge just a few years before the outbreak of the first world war.
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After the First World War the coverage of unemployment insurance was extended and a contributory pension scheme was introduced.
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As someone enraptured with history, and visiting around the time of the eightieth anniversary of the end of the First World War, I went to offer my respects at the tomb of Hussein ibn Ali — the Grand Sharif of Mecca, the father of Emir Abdullah, and the great-grandfather of King Hussein.
Israel Now
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The Russian imperial throne was the first monarchical casualty of the most catastrophic conflict to date in European history, the First World War.
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After the First World War Germany conceded a lot of land to her neighbours.
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It's an old-established timber company, founded back in the First World War when demand was high.
HIGH STAND
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The balance of evidence suggests the Liberal party's decline began before the First World War.
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The nations of the world, after the first world war, realized the pressing necessity for a world peace organization.
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The best place to see this is the wonderful church he built after the First World War at Le Raincy in the eastern Paris suburbs, as a memorial to the Marne victory that halted the German advance of 1914.
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Duchamp was a Frenchman born in 1887 who managed to skip the first world war by feigning invalidity and resettled himself in New York in 1915.
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Shortly after the First World War tentative steps towards the implementation of a monopoly policy were being considered.
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‘It is the story of all the women left behind during the First World War - the sisters, the fiancées and the bereaved,’ said Jeannie.
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The ballistics model is First World War ballistics mathematics.
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Unlike the original entente cordiale, which was the product of mutual concern about a hostile power before the first world war, the latest deal is being presented as the product of hard-headed pragmatism, designed to maximise each nation's military capabilities while saving money.
Liam Fox: Anglo-French defence treaty will not compromise UK sovereignty
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Many have laboured, lost their footing and fallen in a bid to dramatise Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, a herculean tale of thwarted love, haunted hearts and man's capacity for bonhomie and inhumanity during the first world war.
Grace Dent: Birdsong
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My dad never knew his own dad - he was killed in the trenches during the First World War but I have never heard a bitter word uttered by my dad towards the German nation.
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It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War.
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But John Aston and Pete Knight are members of the Old Contemptibles, which is a group of First World War enthusiasts based in the Midlands.
Express & Star
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The first world war brought a conquering South African army.
Times, Sunday Times
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They started things like the First World War, where they thought ‘oh, we're just taking care of some minor little problem here in the Balkans ’, and whammo, things have spun violently out of control.
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The dead marshes, with their unburied soldiers could be seen as the First World War trenches where Tolkien fought.
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Built after the First World War it's renowned for its Rodin, but more modern art also has a place.
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William Henry Bowker was a Blackburn grocer, but after learning to drive for the army during the First World War he seized the opportunities offered by the new age of motor transport and started a car dealership.
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Both in Europe and U. S. , the day nursery movement received great impetus during the First World War, when shortage of manpower caused the industrial employment of unprecedented numbers of women.
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The cabinet contained drawers full of miniature soldiers - armies which went back to Roman and ancient Greek times, with all the accoutrements of war through the ages, from siege towers and ballistae to the howitzers and field gunsjust coming into service before the First World War.
Final Resting Place of The Pen
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Pre-first world war photographs and cine film show diverse peoples living in harmony yet in the shadow of increasing militarism.
Times, Sunday Times
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This became a major problem for the Union and the coup de grace was delivered by the unprecedented financing needs brought on by the First World War.
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Grandfather is a veteran soldier of the First World War.
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The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war.
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Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belport by Edith Wharton this is a collection of magazine articles the author wrote during the first world war.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Two-thirds of these files on soldiers killed in the First World War were destroyed in the Blitz but the charred and water-damaged remnants are being pieced together and made available on microfilm.
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Perhaps the most significant milepost came just after the First World War, when Suzanne Lenglen won everything going in tennis.
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At the end of his book on Blair's Britain, Chapman has this to say about what we've lost and what we might need to see revived: 'A revival of the idea of functionalist democracy pioneered with the Whitley Report at the end of the First World War, could transform social relationships and participation.
Archbishop's lecture celebrating 60th Anniversary of the William Temple Foundation
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In its heyday the Barnbow factory in Leeds was crucial to the Allied war effort during the First World War.
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A Hampshire airman will be proving that age certainly has not withered him when he pilots a replica First World War plane this weekend.
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Their release of atomic force was nearly 100 per cent, and each one of them was equal to many hundred tons of trinitrotoluol, which I had known in the First World War, five hundred years before, as "T.N.T.
The Airlords of Han
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When the First World War began, Sautter requested a furlough from the World's Committee to work with French soldiers (he maintained close contact with the World's Committee during his absence).
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
