Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall not subscribe. It gives me a feeling of pleasure to wend my way to this newsstand or that and purchase it weekly. Might save a few cents by subscribing, but it's more fun to buy it hebdomadically...
...other side of the world from Washington, however, that was brewing which might make the Kellogg Treaty absurd on the first day of its legal existence. Soviet Russia and Nationalist China, two of the signatories of the pact, were on the explosive verge...
...Thus far the Federal Government has borne the brunt of [Dry] enforcement. It seems to me the Governors' Conference might well consider approaching the Federal Government on some feasible proposal to share this burden. If the National Government were to attend to preventing importation, manufacture and shipment in interstate commerce of intoxicants, the State undertaking the internal police regulations to prevent sales, saloons, speakeasies and so forth, national and state, laws might be modified so as to become reasonably enforceable and one great source of demoralizing and pecuniarily profitable crime removed...
Nicely pre-arranged was the ceremony of acceptance. Heading the committee was August Heckscher, octogenarian philanthropist, whose slum elimination project on the city's lower East Side Mayor Walker has helped. A change in the city administration might disturb Mr. Heck-scher's chief philanthropic hobby...
...Bishop of Utah and a specially appointed Commission of the House of Bishops met in a house in Vandeventer Place, St. Louis. Outside moaned the wind, snow flurried in the streets. The Commission sat alone. Bishop Jones was in an-other room but the Commission knew they might speak to him "whenever occasion demanded." They wrote answers to a series of questions which Bishop Jones, silent in the other room, had submitted to them...