Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifth Commandment of the Mosaic Code is not the only one which is not enforced by law in the U. S.: Enforcement by law of Nos. I and I would be unconstitutional. Legal treatment of Nos. Ill and IV is recommended by Blue Law societies. No. X has only moral support. Nos. VI to IX, inclusive, are enforced by law, with the partial exception...
...sneers at the religion of the Spaniards, she insults all Italians who are not Fascists, she expresses dislike of almost everything American, which is not merely silly, it is ill-natured and calculated, like a great many of her pages on her short visit to America, to annoy Americans and confirm them in the opinion: 'Britishers never like anything to which they haven't been accustomed all their lives...
...spending so much time on the mechanics of steam engines that we have no time left for studying the mechanics of life. . . . It breaks the country up into different groups. Each group has an absolutely different point of view. They fail to understand each other. This creates animosity and ill will. It is said that if the Germans had not devoted all their time and energy before the War to specialization, they would not been so blind as to have started . . . . We are just beginning to the effects of this over-specialization...
...list of University prize winners announced Saturday, Mason Hammond '25 of Nahant, who won a Rhodes scholarship earlier this year, was named the winner of two Bowdoin prizes for his translations into Attic Greek and into Latin. Walter Thomas Pattison '25 of Wilmette, Ill., was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature for his essay dealing with the Spanish writing of the Golden Age. A Frederick Sheldon Fellowship in Anthropology was awarded to Carleton Stevens Coon of Wakefield...
...been brought under one news item: the opium evil and the recent tendency of Americans to offer large prizes. Former Controller Metz has gone on record as willing to give $100,000 to the man who invents synthetic opium. Strangely enough Mr. Metz thinks he can succeed where the ill-fated Opium Conference failed. Put cheap opium production into the hands of western scientists, argues the prize offer, and you eliminate the opium complex of the East...