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Word: either (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the wet views of Alfred Emanuel Smith, Premier L. A. Taschereau, of Quebec, is in accord. Said the Quebec Premier last week: "I cannot make any actual comment upon any of the planks of the platform advocated by either Mr. Smith or Mr. Hoover. However, I might say that I am not altogether insensible to the reference made by the Democratic candidate to the liquor question. When some of my friends in the opposition in the Legislature offered some bitter criticism at the time the Government introduced the Quebec Liquor Act, I replied that before very long our liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Liquor Law | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...wherein he said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate the rule." This constitutes either falsehood or an anaemic revival of his 1925 alibi, when he was in a similar difficulty for a similar offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...long as we've got prohibition, I'd like to give it long enough to work itself out. ... If we keep it 100 years and the other nations stay wet, we'll either own them or they will be working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Mr. Barton | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...greatest number of people-are what might be called the Straight Reporters, the correspondents of the big news services. This year the Associated Press keeps two men and a woman, the United Press one man, near each Nominee continually. Writing their cautious, colorless reports, these writers are either unsung heroes or stenographic automata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Boys | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Futile had been the attempt to cure the young mute by the sudden changes of air pressure incident to so wild an airplane ride. Such cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was functional. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of her Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had put her child through the ordeal, stubbornly faithful that science could cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mute Terror | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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