Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arguments: The arguments presented by the New Yorkers were: 1) That the New York route would lie entirely within the U. S. 2) That U. S. ports, not Canadian ports, would profit by it. 3) That in time of war it would be valuable to the country to have the route entirely within our boundaries. 4) That it is more than 1,300 miles shorter as a route from the Great Lakes to the West Indies and South America. 5) That because it is more southerly it would be open for navigation from 30 to 45 days more a year...
...that they must stand upon their own managerial feet as private concerns as they long have been able to do at home. With a constant vision of official intervention in case of a difficulty they forget they are regulated by the laws of the country in which their activities lie. And this dependence is not without reason as past experiences have so admirably demonstrated. Aid has over been readily forthcoming. A squadron of destroyers can be relied upon to turn up pleasantly in an obstreperous foreign port or an corrective note may be dutifully dispatched to Mexico...
...went back to Granite Falls and resumed his practice. Last fall he was appointed legal aid to the prohibition administrator in Minnesota. Now in the Postoffice Building in St. Paul,**** one may go up a narrow hall and into a bare, brownish room. Piles of pamphlets lie on the floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles...
Tulane University was founded in 1834. For a long time it was the only important school of the South. In 1886 came Newcomb Memorial College for Girls; in 1911 Catholic Loyola University. These schools lie on pleasant adjacent campuses on the city's outskirts, opposite splendid Audubon Park, which in turn stretches between St. Charles Street and the Mississippi...
...social value of religion seems to lie in the affirmative interest it gives in others and its relative freedom from covetousness. Herein lies its connection with business...