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World War en · PROPN

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1. (dated) World War I.
   • The deep antagonism generated by the World War, however, represented a dramatic reversal for Germany’s emerging interest in cultural diplomacy, as both the Entente and the Central Powers aggressively discredited the political aims and the cultural achievements of their opponents. 2015, Stephen Gross, chapter 3, in Export Empire: German Soft Power in Southeastern Europe, 1890–1945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 121:
   • As late as the eve of the World War, two-thirds of the farm land belonged to only a quarter of a million proprietors: princes and barons and well-to-do townsmen. 1939, Carl T. Schmidt, chapter I, in The Corporate State in Action, New York: Oxford University Press, page 6:

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