Word: mak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have confidence, however, that when the ntelligent, the patriotic, and the well-to-do, as .veil as the plain people, face the real issue, vhen they see whither we are tending in mak-ng fun of the law and of its violation, all of vhich tends to lead to support those who are engaged in violating it, when they realize that others not so patriotic, and who are evilly-minded are only too glad to bring about a demoralization of all law, as the open violations of the liquor law necessarily tend to do, then I believe we shall rouse...
...canna quite mak' oot what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps...
...Wagner of New York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good use of some of the $500,000 he gave it last winter (TIME...
Security. With the idea of mak-ing the world safe to disarm, the disarmament committee of the assembly unanimously approved the French project of empowering the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission, while arranging for a general conference on limitation and reduction of arms, to study means of making arbitration compulsory and of instituting a graduate system of security among Nations (TIME, Sept...
...faced Cochet. The Frenchman won the first set 6-4, but Johnston was hardly warmed to the game. The U. S. man took the second set 4-6. Cochet, mak-ing a desperate rally, won the third 6-2. The fourth stood at 2-5 in favor of Cochet. Johnston exerted every ounce of muscle, pulled the set up to 4-5. Then, Cochet won the last game and the Davis cup passed, for the first time in history, to France...