Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they existed. "We are coming to the time", Mr. Boynton went on to say, "when the decisions of our courts and their findings are the subject for mass meetings, as if a case could be handled more intelligently in mass meetings than in a courtroom." The popular petitions to alter or set aside decisions usually come from people who know nothing of the case, he believes, and it is evidence that our institutions are endangered...
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Long and prodding, the letter went on to discuss statutes and customs; to mention the failure of two Republicans (Grant and Roosevelt) who tried to alter custom; to refer to "your recent public rebuff to Herbert Hoover"* and the alleged embarrassment felt by other Republican presidential aspirants due to their chief's silence...
...ones above all others which should have been rejected with scorn. And in all these intimate post mortems the gargantuan form of reality, of actuality, rears its ugly head; for the prizes have been chosen and nothing except a nicely calculated refusal on the part of the winners can alter that fact...
...statue, at 23, that is as well known, perhaps, as any U. S. work in clay, "The Minute Man of Concord." The fact that the Minute Man in question was famed more by his appearance on thousands of boxes of Minute Tapioca than by universal acclaim does not alter the fact that he is a famed minute man and statue...