Word: alteration
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Observers of the Young Turks' successful occidentalization of Turkey marveled, once more, at the docility of the Turkish masses, which have abandoned the fez, ceased to contract polygamous marriages, and now seem prepared to alter the fundamental rites of their religion-all this within ten years...
...have been able to give you but a small reminder of our questionable press conditions; there is little doubt that they merit intelligent alteration. But how to alter them? One answer is, of course censorship and fascist methods...
...Committee points out that boxes of even numbers are on the Yard side of the Delta. Boxes are numbered, tables lettered. The box and table list of the guests of the Seniors is alphabetically as follows. Adams, Katherine 48 Alden, Esther. 25 Allen, Evelyn M. 40 Alter, Mrs. David B. 58 Baker, Lydia C. 16 Baker, Mary. Barron, Mrelyn. 22 Barnes, Lois. 32 Baron, Edith. 5 Baylies, Ruth. S Beach, Helen Louise. 26 Bean, Julta. B Altschuler, Lillian 6 Andelman, Evelyn. 9 Antine, Hazel. 14 Anderson, Mary. 40 Beardsley, Francis. 38 Beauchamp, Juanita. 27 Bemis, Aice. 11 Bernstein, Florence...
...standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched it quickly. And her home work room ? hung with the musty odor of thread, cloth and warm flat-irons ? became the core...
...German-born persons of voting age in the U. S., more than any other national or racial group except Jews and Negroes. The German vote, well organized, is potent. It is greatly influenced by the dignified nine-year-old Steuben Society of America, one of whose objects is to alter current ideas about War Guilt. There was, therefore, more than one reason for last week's headlines: "Hoover is Undecided on Visiting Louvain...