Word: allay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Motivated by the Anglo-Saxon urge of law-enforcement, two bodies made contrary recommendations on the same day. Both aimed to allay the almost universally acknowledged super-Nation in the enforcement of its prohibition law. One, the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, of which Chief Justice Taft is Chairman, petitioned Attorney General Stone to recommend, in his report to Congress, that the Prohibition Unit be transferred from the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. The other, the Anti-Saloon League, urged the President to expedite the passage of the Cramton Bill, which would...
...time, however, when the moderate leaders of Japan, the nation which came off third in the Washington Naval agreement, are seeking by every means to allay Oriental distrust of America's naval ambitions, it is unfortunate that the chief executive should feel obliged to boast of a "naval rank, second to none". Japan's sensibilities, deeply outraged by the immigration insult, will store up the needless affront. Japanese pride, made anxious by the stabilization of naval ratios at 5-5-3, will not be allayed by this new demonstration, for it will not be perceived that...
UNDER DISPUTE - Agnes Repplier -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). If this title sounds acrimonious, one glance at its author's name will allay suspicion. Miss Repplier could not be disputatious if she would. Her essays are among the most polished, civilized, smooth-flowing products of contemporary pens. Her erudition is always so glossed over with silken-smooth phrasing that one does not at once compass its depth. In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values...
...East, is somewhat overripe. The usually reliable industrial barometer of steel production has apparently reached its peak and begun to turn downwards, rather the way it did last year. Even the better foreign news has apparently been "discounted" in the markets, and has proved insufficiently cheering to allay a feeling that things are likely to get worse before they get better...
...allay the suspense at once, the chosen volumes in order, as determined by the "International Book Review," are "The Outline of History," "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," "If Winter Comes," "The Americanization of Edward Bok," "The Life of Christ," "The Crisis," O. Henry's Short Stories, "The Virginian," "Life and Letters of Waltor H. Page," and "The Mind in the Making," by J. H. Robinson. An analysis of this surprising survey brings to light some interesting and significant data. Since only five of the books are novels, the American reading public, apparently, is not so hopelessly devoted to the appeals...