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...march of Prohibition's progress tramps larger and muddier across the daily page after a dubious decade of noble experimenting. The Government loses millions of dollars in revenue, over a thousand souls are slain; corruption and license go hand in hand with illegal gain, all for the sake of an Ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SULLIED ERMINE | 1/25/1930 | See Source »

...attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand the weather. The fields are a sodden green. Every afternoon hundreds come back from their Rugger games muddier and scarcely drier than the rowing men. It is not to be wondered at, then, that the weather forms the first staple of conversation at Oxford; that it is, in fact, the first of a number of interests which the Englishman and the foreigner find in common at Oxford. The part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rhodes Scholar Writes Contemporary Oxford Articles | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

Taken together it appears that the Press, undisputed as its power is, has only succeeded in making the muddy election water a whole lot muddier. Anything may happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Men Behind the Elections | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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