Word: 21st
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Congress stipulated that the amendment must be acted on within seven years. Since approval of the Bill of Rights, ratification of amendments has usually taken about a year. The 16th (income tax) took three and a half years. But it took parched Americans only nine months to approve the 21st, repealing Prohibition...
...Wishy-washy." 34. "What does the world expect of the U.S.?" and "What is the U.S. going to do about it?" were the two questions world leaders discussed at the 21st Institute of the Council on World Affairs...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg said in his speech at the closing session of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs' 21st Institute: "I congratulate the Cleveland Forum upon the powerful program it has produced from all quarters of the globe in a striking exchange of international opinion. This process of reciprocal candor is one of the major forces which can beat swords into plowshares on the anvils of mutual understanding and goodwill...
Mexico's eloquent former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla prefaced the Cleveland Council on World Affairs' 21st Annual Institute with the above verse, from (he said) a 19th Century English hymn...
This week the 21st branch "Borstal," on the Earl of Plymouth's Worcestershire estate, opened its doors. Working without supervision, an advance party of Borstal boys began to restore the Earl of Plymouth's formal gardens and help convert his 52-bedroom mansion into a home for 150 Borstal delinquents. In their spare time they studied engineering and carpentering. Before the Borstal boys arrived, the worried villagers had thrown up their hands at the prospect of such "rough, nasty" neighbors; now some of them had invited the boys into their homes...