Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Money. . . . They cannot pay for everything themselves because they are not all little rich girls, and it would not be right in this democracy for the rich to pay for the poor ones, so the dues must be the same for all, and that does not bring in enough money...
...Enough to say that it was of a sort that caused a slight but almost continuous discomfort and at times a serious nervous upset, from childhood to the day of his death. It prevented the little boy from playing football, baseball, and all other strenuous games. And it probably was a factor in causing his terrible headaches, his still more terrible temper, his ghastly dyspepsia, and his nightmares...
...Smoot attitude seemed to many an observer to coincide remarkably with President Hoover's. Only the President's bitterest critics credit him with having been simple-minded or stubborn enough not to realize that Washington, with wet Maryland adjacent and the broad Potomac handy, is one of the easiest places in the U. S. to buy liquor. And only the fanatically Dry have failed to appreciate the sense of the Hoover policy on Prohibition, sharply announced soon after Inauguration (TIME, March 11). The gist of that policy was: "No more crusades...
...months they have been holding Schober up as a model of the sort of man who ought to be Chancellor of Austria. Now Schober was Chancellor, and not only was there no member of the Heimwehr listed on his cabinet, but it was quickly evident he was strong enough to rule Austria himself, quite independent of Heimwehr dictatorship...
...more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all families, who sat in the rear of the rooms and cried their vices to each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess, and for physics." Mr. Lipshutz made this analysis because he is a reader of Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken's American Mercury...