Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main points of dispute between the Calles Government in Mexico and the Catholic Church, is education. In dealing with Mexico as President, Mr. Smith would be faced with breaking either the traditional U. S. policy, or incurring the wrath of Catholics by disregarding Catholic teaching...
...tablets put ready. Sick men went to bed until the hospital was full; then they were placed in cabins. At Panama 167 were sick of influenza. Eleven men developed mumps, infectious disease that added to fear aboard. To restrain the epidemic officers forbade enlisted men to mount above the main deck, first-class passengers to descend from the promenade. Continuous entertainment kept morale...
...less I like it. . . . Maybe I intend to take a wife." A few months later his reaction was: "I'm going to buy the biggest and best looking motor car that money will buy and drive it at whatever speed I choose right through the main street of Onawa...
...Statues of what animals grace the main entrance of the public library on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue, Chicago...
...dead twin brother, Kurt-at home, at military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp characters, vivid atmosphere, swift plot and plenty of it. Grant his one demand, Freya's incredible ambivalence, and he repays with corking entertainment...