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Word: morrises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four-thirty p. m. one day last week was a zero hour. When it came, 130 Federal Prohibition agents simultaneously launched 35 assaults along a 200-mile liquor front in the sea angle from the tip of Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Biggest Raid | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

This afternoon the first games in the Business School touch football league will be played on Soldiers Field. This year is the first in which members of the Business School have had any supervised form of athletics; and it is hoped that it will meet with continued popularity. 125 men...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

The distinction between buyer and seller may appear illogical, but the exemption of the liquor purchaser was not made carelessly, inadvertently. In 1918. when Prohibition enactment was being debated, Senator Hardwick of Georgia frightened Drys by proposing that pending liquor legislation should prohibit the purchase and use of intoxicants as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Crime in Purchase? | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Five weeks ago Stanley Melbourne Bruce, youngest Prime Minister of a British dominion, was forced by canny, wrinkle-eyed ex-Premier William Morris ("Billy") Hughes to issue a call for a general election on the issue of abolishing Federal arbitration of trades union disputes (TIME, Sept. 23). The duty of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Bruce's Swan Song | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Just before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boss Granata | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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