Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began some two weeks before the ninth anniversary of U. S. Prohibition, was purely a Prohibition byproduct, inasmuch as her four convictions had all been found on liquor charges. In 1924, in 1925, in 1927, she had served from six days to a year for violation of the prohibition act. The life sentence was imposed under the Baumes-like Michigan law which establishes four convictions as the test of a "habitual criminal" and sentences such criminals to life terms. Mrs. Miller has ten children, two grandchildren. Her husband is serving his first liquor-conviction sentence. Lest any feel that...
...second or Conciliation Pact of last week binds the signatories to submit their differences?in advance of any open rupture or overt act requiring arbitration?to the good offices of one of two permanent Conciliation Commissions, established respectively in Montevideo, Uruguay, and at Washington, U. S. A. The Conciliation Pact runs to 16 articles and concludes...
...Cross '31, a left wingman, will probably alternate with Captain John Tudor '29, since M. H. Stanley '30 is reported to have just recuperated from a slight illness. Harwood Ellis '31 will be on hand to share the duties of goal guarding with Elkins. H. D. Everett '31 will act as a spare wingman...
...Catholic Church absolutely condemns birth control as essentially immoral, because it implies the limitation of the family by artificial prevention of conception. It is an unnatural perversion, for it goes against the order intended by God, and defeats the immediate end of a natural human act...
...pretty upsetting to the stand-patters. The philosophers who insist that place is only relative, after all, will hall a support. We live in a world of change, they tell us, but we hadn't expected such confirmation. Some of us will take the news with equanimity, content to act in what appears to be a moving picture, but there is always the small person who, told that Niagara Falls was eating its way backward, eventually to wash away a nearby village, wept, fearful for the safety of a cherished aunt in that village...