Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition Commissioner for wood alchol poison in industrial alchol, and accounts of action to come before the House Judiciary Committee for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...otherwise wholly admirable shifting of the center of college life nearer the river that fashion has in recent years greatly altered, and many believe for the worse. Yet it is fair to remember that if we are to turn to another system, there was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even in the earlier years of the nineteenth century, a custom or habit, even in some sort a ritual of dining in hall. This though less ancient than that in some of the English colleges and in some measure derived from theirs, (as theirs, it must be remembered...
There is, strictly speaking, on Baby Volstead law in this state. Two separate dry acts have been passed in this state since the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted. Another act embodying the features of the Volstead Act was voted down. The first of these dry acts, passed in 1921, merely forbade the sale and exposure for sale of all intoxicating liquors. It did not forbid the manufacture, importation, or transportation of such liquors. A second and supplementary act was passed later. This later act forbade the manufacture, importation, and transportation of liquors, thus covering what the earlier act had failed...
...John Barnard Associates and the Cygnet Press are avowedly Harvard concerns. The first professes to emulate an eighteenth-century clergyman who "was fond of books and did what he could for Harvard", while the second is managed by two members of the Signet Society who aim to demonstrate that they have learned something from the finely printed books which have been given to the College Library...
Although an excellent method for rigid enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and probably the only one approximating any degree of success, wholesale killings on a slight pretext leave the majority of thoughtful citizens cold. Major punishment meted out for minor infringements has never enjoyed a wide degree, of appeal. In view of the rather disagreeable incidents that Prohibition has foisted on the attention of the American public during the last decade, there is a considerable amount of justice in the fact that the noble experiment is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a plentitude of dramatic, if somewhat disturbing pyrotechnics...