Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaching out of the great central power to brush the doorsteps of local communities, far removed geographically and politically from Washington, will be irritating in such States and communities, and will be a strain upon the bond of the National Union. It will produce variation in the enforcement of the law. There will be loose administration in spots all over the United States and a politically inclined National Administration will be strongly tempted to acquiesce in such a condition. Elections will continuously turn on the rigid or languid execution of the Liquor Law, as they do now in Prohibition States...
...against hypocrisy."-James F. Lucas, Philadelphia paint-and-brush maker, longtime Republican. Similarly, Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco banker, irregular Republican...
...Lincoln's first vice president. He heads the Whitney South Sea Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. His present despatches report him having reached the crater of Balbi, active volcano on the northwest coast of the Island of Bougainville. For aids through tropical rains, mud and brush he could get only two Polynesian sailors. Natives, however, did not molest...
...talk of his brilliant past; he wanted the reporters to get the right angle on physiology and the cloudy future, wherein lay the purpose of his endowment fund. The half million dollars was put in trust in memory of his scientist-son, Charles Francis Brush Jr., who died last year. Its income is "to finance efforts contributing toward the betterment of the human stock and toward the regulation of the increase of population, to the end that children shall be begotten only under conditions which make possible a heritage of mental and physical health, and a favorable environment...
Scientist Brush, concerned about the future, knows that science plays no favorites, preserves some of the weak, unfit, feeble-minded as well as the strong. "General reading and common sense," he says, have made him want to educate people to the evils of too great population increase. His trust fund will be used for research in eugenics, popular enlightenment, regulation of overpopulation. The program of the foundation has not yet taken definite form. Birth control clinics may be the first step...