Word: differently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost cause," he believes. No one now challenges the supremacy of the Federal Government or denies the power of Congress "to reach out into the States and influence or control local affairs and enforce uniform standards on subjects about which the people of the various States may differ." But another issue arises at this point. "Before that power is exercised, we face the question, is it wise...
...revolutionary aspect of the Reading Period has, it seems to me, been overestimated. As the plan worked out in many cases, students were merely given unusually heavy assignments which did not essentially differ from ordinary course requirements. In such instances, the changes involved in the Reading Period were as follows: students were not lectured to, nor were they quizzed on the subjects covered by the assignments. But when one considers that the lectures in some courses do not cover the same ground as the contemporaneous reading, and that few courses hold quizzes directly prior to the examination period, the novelty...
From such high opinion it is difficult to differ. Last week the young woman quietly rested on her claims and did not challenge a widespread assertion that her expenses in the U. S. will be defrayed by rich Mrs. William B. Leeds, the onetime Princess Xenia of Russia, now sojourning in the fashionable West Indies. Finally, observers recalled that Berlin police detectives long ago satisfied themselves that the young woman is Franziska Schanzkowski, a Polish peasant, born on the sixteenth of December 1896, at Borowielass in Pomerania...
...aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time, as to whether a murderer should pay with his own life. For various humanitarian reasons eight of the forty-eight states have abolished capital punishment, there remaining forty that have preserved it, although they differ in procedure, most of them favoring electrocution or hanging. In any of these states when an execution takes place publicity is not lacking and the readers of the press are treated to an emotional debauch. In the eight states that deprive their citizens of the thrills attendant upon an execution...
Robinson: "All right. I cannot settle that with the Senator from Alabama. It is another fact about which we differ...