Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister, you are too thoughtless. You must realize you can never dare to face your ancestors in the world to come if you carry through this action...
...upon her great career of enterprise. What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain: England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...
...supporting Prohibition. Under that clause he was permitted to continue making his own applejack or blackberry wine on the legal fiction that it was a non-intoxicating fruit-juice for home consumption. Soon shrewd vine-yardists seized upon Section 29 to supply the wine wants of city folk. Virginia Dare Vineyards, Inc. promised to ship a grape juice that would ferment into champagne in the home and thus be quite legal (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Seeking new markets for their grapes, seven California co-operatives in 1929 merged as Fruit Industries, Inc., joined the California Grape Control Board, obtained...
Died-John Munroe, 64, pioneer publisher (with his father) of paperback dime novels ("Fireside Library" series, Dare-devil Dick); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Dickey was as cryptic as were the old Caribs concerning El Dorado. He wirelessed: "We . . . have made a discovery of such startling geographical importance that I must be sure of it beyond the slightest risk of error before I dare have it put in print." He said nothing about finding any gold...