Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they voted to keep their back yards free from the saloon. It was really not a moral objection that caused them to vote "dry", as is shown by their reversal of opinion after prohibition had taken effect in Boston. A practical lesson in the ethics of voting should be drawn from this weak policy of moral vacillation, that another such mistake may not be made...
...comparison drawn by Mr. Laski between American and British university students and methods suggests at least one significant question. Is it more desirable that the educational system of a country should produce a large group of men whose average mental equipment is relatively high, and but very few above this average, or that it should produce a considerable number of brilliantly able men while the general average is allowed to decline...
...conditions of the scholarship were drawn up as follows...
...Bacheller has drawn a glowing picture of life in the Golden West in the last century. He has given us a character novel full of the color and action of pioneer times. He has brought back visions of boundless plains and virgin forest, of smoking cabins and prairie schooners and Indians...
...purpose of this course, according to President Butler, to teach or to preach doctrines, but rather to show the movement of civilization in its achievement of constructive progress. The context of the course is drawn out not merely from history, but from economics, politics, ethics, and political science...