Word: antis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closing up of Roman Catholic schools and nunneries and the arbitrary arrest of Roman Catholics under the Anti-Religious clauses of the Constitution (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926 et seq.) is a sport which the Mexican constabulary pursue by cruel and unusual fits and starts...
...latest development of the Marines-in-Nicaragua racket which is still filling the public press and beginning to bore the populace, is a new squabble between Postmaster John J. Kiely and a protest organization which calls itself in the best athletic manner the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. The League wants to put stamps bearing the inscription. "Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua" on the backs of envelopes. The Postmaster has decided, however, that the Marines can not be classed in the same boat with the "White Death", especially out of the Christmas season. He has forbidden the stamps passage...
...student and its effects on academic life" that Mr. R. L. Duffus in the New York Times Magazine concluded his survey of the problems of American colleges. And because he chose merely to be an optimistic reporter of the surface facts, this conclusion was something of an anti-climax. The effect of club life and self support on undergraduate democracy he felt to be a dangerous subject better set forth without injudicious comment. At Harvard," he said, "it is taken for granted that a certain social status in the outside world is essential to election in certain societies...
Robinson: "... I have heard the Senator from Alabama a dozen times during the last year make what he calls his anti-Catholic speech. I have heard him denounce the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome and the cardinal and the bishop and the priest and the nun until I am sick and tired of it, as a Democrat...
...city's original name was fantastically Losantiville-L for Licking; os, the Latin word for "mouth"; anti, the Greek word for "against"; and ville, the French word for "city...