Word: encroaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prohibition, and so willing to eschew the saloon if a satisfactory alternative presents itself, that the framing of wise liquor legislation is a matter or profound social importance. That legislation must set at the beginning a far frontier of government control upon which no one will dare to encroach; specifically, it should prohibit the sale of liquor of any kind outside of federal dispensaries and restaurants. In the beginning, those restaurants may seem to be little more than dining saloons, and there will probably be drunkenness and some measure of public vice carried on in them...
...fowls such as ducks and chickens (TIME, Aug. 31; Oct. 5). I am anxious to add to the scientific knowledge of the world and especially on frogs since they have been experimented with a great deal from the very beginning of time on to now. This causes me to encroach on your "Time" to write and tell you some experience I had with frogs when I was a boy. My father owned an immense dirt tank or pond as you call it in the North. There were frogs of many sizes in this pond and I liked to look...
...cannot admit the power in the Senate to encroach upon the Executive functions by removal of a duly appointed executive officer under the guise of reconsideration of his nomination...
...would soon be ended." In Cleveland there was earnest talk of raising immediately $200,000, the city's share in a prospective $10,000,000 national fund. In Detroit, Henry Bourne Joy, Packard tycoon, cried: "I pray our President may soon recommend that the Federal Government cease to encroach upon the responsibilities of the States...
Three reservations are attached by the French Government to its proposal: 1) the Union must be linked in harmony with the League; 2) it must never, in principle at least, be opposed to any other group; 3) the Union as a whole shall never encroach upon the rights of one of its members...