Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposed to a policy which will allow any State to determine for itself the alcoholic content of beverages to be manufactured, sold and transported throughout the country, but I believe the States should join with the officers of the United States in enforcing the laws of Congress, as was contemplated by the constitutional amendment...
...respect to the kind of person chosen to fill the position, thus further impairing the contact I feel to be so important. Most young men who are enthusiastically concerned to become successful teachers, and who may by good fortune possess creative imaginations of their own, will not be content to labor long under the shackles of the traditional conception of literature and of these new examinations which extend its power to so great a degree. They cannot sincerely believe that the passing of such examinations represents a worthy achievement; they will be unwilling to expend their energies in helping students...
...average fed-up layman are approximately the same as his attitude toward Sandino and Diaz and their little quarrel. He rather hopes it will be a "dog eat dog" fight. There is no good reason why one should not decorate his billet doux and otherwise to his heart's content providing the posters bear no improper sentiments. And of course there is no good reason why he should, especially if the Postal authorities object. However, much as one may dislike propaganda of any sort plastered over his private correspondence, the line here seems to be rather arbitrarily drawn...
...nobly to create a work able plan which will bring more autonomous sovereignty and wider democracy to 318,940,000 backward, caste-divided Indians, now split among themselves upon an infinitude of religious and political issues. If these seven men can devise a plan which will content both India and Britain they will have wrought like titans, heroes, messiahs. Said Sir John Simon, last week. "This is the biggest job I know. Now I will have...
Japanese were widely content at the dissolution, since, in any case, the four-year term of the present irresolute Diet would have expired in May. It will now be possible to put into effect at once the new universal manhood suffrage law (TIME, Jan. 9), which will increase the electorate voting for the new Diet from...