The electrification of suburban railways during the interwar period greatly increased their speed, comfort, and flexibility. |
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The murder at Marseilles was one of the most appalling events of the interwar period. |
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Decision-makers and public opinion in the interwar period yearned for stability and an end to war-induced disruption. |
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Indeed, even in the interwar period, when it was thought to be entirely disengaged, it was still a critical factor in international relations. |
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Simon Wiesenthal was born in Galicia, Ukraine, in 1908, an area which became part of Poland during the interwar years. |
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There was a genuine whiff of the interwar fascist dictatorship of Mussolini. |
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During the interwar period, the question of the appropriate position of women was subject to national discussion. |
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As noted already, the past 15 years comprised principally a postwar, or interwar, period. |
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But exports of manufactured paper products also grew well beyond the levels of the interwar period. |
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Life in the neglected U.S. Army of the interwar years is often portrayed as routine, dull, and unchallenging. |
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The army organized twenty-nine Guard observation squadrons during the interwar period. |
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The same was true of various attempts made by the League of Nations during the interwar period to achieve world disarmament. |
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During the interwar period, there was little more provocative in the arts than a woman in command, celebrating the eroticism of the body. |
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The interwar years saw the development and spread of the concepts and assumptions of depth psychology, particularly of psychoanalytic thought. |
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Given the context of Europe in the interwar period, these are words that should be handled with the greatest caution. |
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Both aims are a fantasy strongly reminiscent of the interwar idealism that Carr so effectively and presciently criticized. |
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One of the main features of art deco and interwar housing is the slender, steel-framed windows. |
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In part because of America's absence, the fledgling organization recorded few achievements in the interwar period. |
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The interwar years saw the rise of the football legend Josef Bican, who scored 644 league goals during his career. |
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In the interwar era masculinity was defined principally in terms of a man's ability to support a family, rather than his independence from domesticity. |
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In this way, the anti-modern currents running through woodcraft served as a precursor to the broad critique of modernity that inspired the interwar years wilderness movement. |
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In Blood Rayne, play the femme fatale, half-human half-vampire in a world of fantasy that takes place during the interwar period. |
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They are sneered at by those who can afford a bit more, just as the interwar pebbledash semis were sneered at. |
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Canada's north has been a focus of Air Force operations since the interwar period. |
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He is currently working on a book, based on his doctoral thesis, on aerial visuality and urban representations in interwar Europe. |
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Remarkably, the interwar period was a time of numerous important military innovations including amphibious warfare, carrier aviation, and strategic bombing. |
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As none other, he could evoke Japan of the eventful interwar period. |
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Services were disrupted during World War I and the interwar period witnessed few new developments except for the introduction of diesel motorships. |
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It would indeed be a tragedy if Europe splinters apart as it did in the interwar period. |
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Old-style fascism of the interwar period is unlikely to reemerge. |
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The sense of courtly love as a unique European achievement and hence a key element in establishing European cultural identity was widely discussed in the interwar period. |
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During the First World War and the interwar years, however, growth slowed. |
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This racism reflected not only a pronounced theme of interwar adventure writing, such as the novels of Buchan, but also wider literary culture. |
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The preeminent example of a planned community in interwar Poland is Gdynia. |
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The interwar depression experienced by Great Britain brought an end to the prosperity of the Glamorgan ports. |
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The interwar agricultural depression aggravated traditional income inequality, raising fertility and impeding the spread of mass schooling. |
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Most of these would be forgotten in the interwar period until World War II revived the need. |
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In addition to such organizational improvements, important medical research with practical military applications was ongoing during the interwar years. |
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Czechoslovakia remained the only democracy in this part of Europe in the interwar period. |
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The interwar period was the period between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second World War. |
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In this way it contributed to the revival of the autochthonous intellectual life and to the integration of Bessarabian literary production into the overall Romanian cultural context of the interwar period. |
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In a small society like that of interwar England, personality counted. |
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As a young man he raced at breakneck speed over the bumpy streets and highways of the interwar years, and even his parents were not allowed to enter his apartment in Zurich without announcing their visit in advance. |
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Eliot's plays were clunkers in this respect, weighed down with portentousness emphasised by putting pentameters in the mouths of the interwar beau monde. |
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At the International Automobile Exhibition in Frankfurt in the fall of that year, Volkswagen introduced the Bugatti 18.3 Chiron, named after the greatest Bugatti racecar driver of the interwar era. |
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During the interwar years, almost every town had a gas holder, sometimes called a gasometer, but most fell into disuse in the 1960s following the discovery of North Sea gas and advances in pipeline technology. |
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As the work force became increasingly heterogenous, its interests were less easily subsumed under the blue-collar egalitarianism that had dominated union policies since the interwar and immediate postwar years. |
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These preconceptions were often informed by and agreed with the interwar eugenics discourse. |
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The composer, conductor and pianist Miroslav Ponc is a little explored and thus overlooked figure of the Czech interwar avant-garde. |
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During the interwar period, the German Wehrmacht devoted more attention to tank development which led to significant improvements in tank design and use in battle. |
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During the five years in which I worked on The Edwardians and, more recently, the interwar years for Borrowed Time, I developed an immense admiration for one of the great radicals of British history. |
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Both women had drawn inspiration from Earhart, an interwar American heroine and in 1932 the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, who had disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 while attempting a round-the-world flight. |
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But Mr Piketty has given these ideas new prominence, and with them the view that the 20th century's dramatic compression of wealth and incomes was largely down to the one-off shock of the interwar era. |
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Thus the landlord class in interwar Japan was in no sense feudal or semi-feudal, but was thoroughly integrated economically and in many cases socially into the dominant urban industrial economy. |
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In the interwar period and even during the early Cold War years, a number of political and cultural observers grasped this point, and they alerted U. S. policymakers to the consequences of this development. |
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In the interwar period and during WWII there was no pilgrimage activity. |
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In its cubic perspective, the composition continues the flat roof architecture in Davos, which has come to exemplify the city's image since the interwar period. |
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Silk production finally came to an end during the interwar depression. |
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During the interwar period the pound started to lose its influence. |
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The strong decline of the licit coca sector in the interwar period is reflected in coca leaf export data from Java and Peru, the two main coca leaf exporting areas. |
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With a collection of over 400 lipsticks, Jean-Marie Martin-Hattemberg, unveils for us the extremely wealthy life of lipstick, intensively developed and commercialized thanks to the Hollywood stars, during the interwar years. |
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Rich and interesting tradition of poverty and unemployment studies of the interwar period was discontinued during the People's Republic of Poland era, when the poverty became one of the ideological and political taboos. |
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The interwar years were marked by economic stagnation in rural and urban areas, and high unemployment. |
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The interwar period saw strife between supporters of the new republic and hardline opponents on both the right and left. |
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New industries arrived in Preston during the interwar years which helped ease the pain felt through the sharp decline of the cotton industry. |
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This meant that, during the early interwar period, the League played little part in resolving the turmoil resulting from the war. |
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During the interwar period, German pilots were trained secretly in violation of the treaty at Lipetsk Air Base. |
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Vivid memories of the horrors and deaths of the World War made Britain and its leaders strongly inclined to pacifism in the interwar era. |
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The Nogat formed part of the border between East Prussia and interwar Poland. |
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The interwar period saw a rapid growth in the city's population, which surpassed one million inhabitants. |
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An influential school of phonology in the interwar period was the Prague school. |
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The countries of Western Europe began to steadily liberalize their economies after World War II and the protectionism of the interwar period. |
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Denmark joined the League of Nations in 1920 and during the interwar period was active in promoting peaceful solutions to international issues. |
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A Moldavian identity prevailed in Bessarabia into the interwar period, whereas a Romanian one had developed among ethnic Romanians in Bukovina even before the Great Union. |
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During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. |
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Britain's control over its Empire loosened during the interwar period. |
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The interwar period brought new elements to the concept of Central Europe. |
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Attempts were made in the interwar period to restore the gold standard. |
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