Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four-thirty p. m. one day last week was a zero hour. When it came, 130 Federal Prohibition agents simultaneously launched 35 assaults along a 200-mile liquor front in the sea angle from the tip of Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages, a Manhattan office building, a New Jersey mansion. Captured were 32 prisoners, hundreds of cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare...
Senate warriors last week stacked their arms and gave themselves over to quarreling as to who was to blame because the Tariff Battle did not move along more briskly. Republican Generalissimo Reed Smoot cried to his cohorts that it was "preposterous" to hold them at fault and that Freebooter Borah was "more than unfair" in so charging. Brigadier Borah thereupon crossed the lines to remark: "Senator Smoot is overworked and perhaps feels irritable. . . . No man in his calmer moments could have supposed that such a bill could have passed without a prolonged fight...
...pipe was secondhand. The same troops, in fighting over the same terrain last spring in the War of Farm Relief, had laid it down as a means of pumping U. S. cash to the farmers. When they were driven out of the lowlands, they carried their Export Debenture pipe along with them in retreat. Now it was down again, by a larger vote than ever before...
...instruction in public speaking for the first time this year. The theory behind this move is sound even if the execution may be slightly disconcerting for the freshmen involved. Beyond this slight change the course remains the same unwieldy monster which causes so much lost sleep in the Dormitories along the Charles...
...harriers will enter their third meet of the season, against the Dartmouth first year men at 3.40 o'clock over the Freshman course along the Charles. The Yearlings have won both their meets this season, defeating the New Hampshire 1933 aggregation by 22 to 33, and overcoming Holy Cross Freshmen...