Word: handing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directions. It may proceed in the direction of softening the law, permitting 2. 75 percent beer, which would please no one, or light wines and beers which are, as a matter of fact, intoxicating, or of putting the government in the business of selling liquor. On the other hand, it make take the form of stiffening the law, imprisoning where it now fines, and applying the penalties to purchasers as well as to sellers. The wets of the seaboard cities are peculiarly incapable of judging the temper of the American people. There is at least an even chance that when...
Prohibition, on the other hand, has not been the product of war hatreds. There is, therefore, not likely to be any such revulsion of feeling as occurred on the subject of reconstruction. It is to be hoped that the question will be ultimately decided not on the basis of feeling but on the basis of an intellectual understanding of the problem and a judicious weighing of the advantages and disadvantages of various attempts to control what all fair minded persons acknowledge to be at the present time a great evil. Every civilized country is trying by one method or another...
There are, in fact, two purposes for which such a collection may be used--the interest and amusement of the public, upon one hand; or the advancement of general culture by the creation of a new life interest among many of those who have the advantages of a college education and the training of experts in the science, upon the other hand. These two purposes are by no means entirely antagonistic, but one or the other should be primary. In consideration of the situation of our museum at a considerable distance from the center of population in this locality...
Finished that book? Pass it over. Lemme see what you wrote this time. You're a funny one, Joe. You just write in the right hand columns. You been missing hundreds of pages since your Freshman year. Me? Why, I bet I write twice as much in margins on left hand pages. I don't know why. I eat and bat righty...
...favorite wife Moti Maris of Memphis, on the Mount of the Temple (Jerusalem's Mount Moriah). With the body was a scroll in which Solomon, supposedly, wrote: "When Moti poured the wine into the cups I noticed that Amerto [her malicious father] did not extend his hand. Nevertheless, I unsuspectingly raised my cup to my lips. Thereupon Moti snatched the cup and drank the [poisoned] wine herself...