Word: damper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China, under the old government drew up treaties with 13 countries which bound her to a uniform five, per cent tariff on all goods. As a result they are unable to foster infant industries by protection, or to impose duties for revenue. This is obviously unjust and is a damper to progress...
Shortly before the final adjournment of the Council was moved, Senhor Mello Franco strode in like the ghost of Banquo, dabbed his eyes with an ever damper handkerchief, handed to League Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond a cablegram. . . . The cable conveyed in 5,000 words the resignation of Brazil from her nonpermanent Council seat. The Council, not to be stampeded, refused to accept the resignation, held that the Assembly of the League is alone empowered...
...anything can put a damper on the vagabonding spirit, it is a cold. Rain helps a little. That grand New England institution of the boardwalk has its merits and its cracks. While a chair and "Gandle Follows His Nose", the book which Heywood Broun claims to have read more often that any other novel in the language--possibly because he wrote it--, may wreck the best intentions in the world...
...before he went, he exchanged amenities with the Mayor. He sent back to the Mayor a blue steel 45-calibre Colt, a gift when he took office; he sent with it a note accusing the Mayor of putting a damper on his activities, especially of preventing him from padlocking the Ritz Carlton Hotel for violation of the liquor law. Philadelphia was in uproar. General Butler had a good record on statistics...
...Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas and South Carolina drought conditions last week were literally burning up the crops, transforming fields into veritable grain furnaces, forcing the closing of schools, resulting in depletion in hydroelectric power, and even impelling inhabitants of parched towns to send their laundry into damper regions...