Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Tribune lugubriously pointed out that if prohibition will sacrifice health needs to the mere possibility of using a distasteful tonic as beer, the end of the matter might well be the prohibition of the raising of grain, fruit. Simultaneously wise Mark Sullivan (political critic) suggested that the eastern wets were all wrong in advocating "beer and wine" because in the West beer is dreaded as much as anything. The reason for the dread is that beer is associated with saloons. For it was brewers like Pabst and AnheuserBusch who monopolized the saloon business, controlled the licenses, exerted through...
...Manhattan, a world record for all time, and were at last stricken with the fear that if they refused again to vote adequate taxes, as they have refused for months (TIME, March 15, et ante), the franc might go the way of the pre-Dawes mark...
Turati. As the loyal mechanic stepped down, there stepped up into his place Signor Augusto Turati of Brescia, a newspaper man of milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded...
Admiral Fiske experimented with Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, a work of 93,000 words. He had it printed to be read in his reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement...
...were dead even. Without hitting it up, the smooth-stroking Cantabs drew ahead, pricking Oxford to a fresh spurt that shot her under Hammersmith Bridge, leading by a third of a length. Cambridge stuck to her steady stroke of 28 and all was even again at the two-mile mark...