Word: bane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commodity, from the jurisdiction of equity courts and from control by court injunctions. The A. F. of L. men recited uses and abuses of anti-Labor injunctions, the effect of which has been to turn the anti-trust laws from organized Labor's blessing into Labor's bane...
President Kraft had had that great cheese made. It symbolized the opening at Durant, of the first commercial cheese factory in the South. And that factory meant a market for milk; a market for milk meant that dairy industry would develop and kill the bane of a single (cotton) crop in the South...
...whip in the U. S. House of Representatives, wrote such reply as seemed necessary, saying, among other things: "[The American people] have been seeking and are entitled to at least a few months' relief now and then from meddlers, mischief makers and apostles of unrest who have become the bane of our modern American existence...
...Frenchmen in foreign lands-the employment of pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife an' fo'k!") or Jewish haberdashery ("Oy yoy! Soch a fine...
Slagle, whose elusive speed has been the bane of eastern tacklers for the last two years, is likely to be on the side lines at the opening kick-off, but will be ready to enter the game at any moment. Slagle is not the only back who will give the Crimson forwards plenty to think about, since Williams, Prendergast, and Caulkins, all big factors in the Princeton victory of last year, will see action in tomorrow's contest...