Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentence been for a year-and-a-day Fall would have been eligible for parole after four months in jail. Sentences of one year or less are not parolable...
With Nova Scotia gone Wet, Ontario confirmed in wetness, the little province of Prince Edward Island with a population less than Yonkers, N. Y., is the only part of Canada which has not cast off prohibition. U. S. Wets could not forbear to gloat last week. Cried President Henry H. Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...area Australia is almost exactly the size of the United States. Her entire population is a little less than that of New York City. To defend this enormous area, the Australian conscription law provided that boys must register at the age of 14, that those physically able must serve as citizen soldiers between the age of 17 and 21, must drill two hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just...
Outstanding as a financier (and his chief is the only living banker who might conceivably be said to outrank him), he is scarcely less an intellectual. His friends include John Masefield, with whom he travels?H. G. Wells, who visits him? Ramsay MacDonald, who dined with him last month. A liberal himself (he supported Cox and Davis because of the League issue, voted for Hoover last fall), he has in his immediate family almost every shade of liberal opinion. His eldest son (Thomas S.) is now, at 31, a Morgan partner, is far more conservative than Corliss, who voted...
...their water in a number of brown jugs, painted with the Michigan colors. One year, however, it was found that one of the jugs was missing. Every place was searched, but the container could not be found anywhere in connection with the Michigan team. The incident was more or less forgotten, until the next year, when, at the game at Ann Arbor, the Minnesota supporters appeared on the field with the brown jug, repainted with Minnesota colors. As soon as the Michigan undergraduates saw this, they promptly rushed out on the field, where a fight ensued for the possession...