Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange, therefore, that Canada should have assumed an attitude apparently so unfriendly in regard to Volstead enforcement. The Canadian government, which once struggled to execute the prohibition law in its own country, now finds the American system of tremendous financial benefit. Furthermore, its decision to allow so powerful a neighbor to fight its own battles to a finish cannot be criticized on this side of the border. Only too often, this has been the method of procedure employed by the United States...
...declined to name any of the board members, although he said their decision would be announced tomorrow; neither did he say whether the members were policemen or dramatists. This board may deliver an ultimatum as to certain lines which must be cut before presentation, or it may refuse to allow the play in Boston on any conditions...
...pumps the water or of putting electric lights in the hen-house. He plans to put his bees, after they have fondly and hopefully gathered a store of honey during the summer in Washington, into a box and, keeping them literally in the dark as to his nefarious intentions, allow them to hibernate trustfully, secure in the knowledge of work well-done. Then he will ship them to Australia where, when they are aroused, they will again smell summer and start to make more honey, under the impression, although unable to explain that tired feeling, that they have overslept...
...letters of historical significance is one of William of Prussia who later became the Emperor William the First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The note of the former is amusing in its content, asking that special provision may be made by the addressee to allow the writer's sister and aunt who are under quarantine for scarlet fever to attend a ball...
...believe that if more of the Protestant Churches throughout the country would arrange their buildings, so that their members could make use of them seven days of the week, instead of on special service days, they would attract more to their cause and would allow for the worship of God by those who desire to do so during the week for prayerful meditation and quietude in the sanctuary...