Word: needed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That last sentence would need explaining, because the Underwood bill placed on the free list a lot of things that farmers raise, viz. bacon, hams, hogs, wool, lambs, sheep, corn, wheat, potatoes, rye, milk, cattle...
...chemical names for wood alcohol and grain ("pure") alcohol are methyl and ethyl respectively. Beverages, being luxuries, are scarcely ever duty-free. But industrialists demand a duty-free alcohol for commercial purposes. Wood alcohol was devised to meet this need. It is simply denaturized "pure" alcohol. Denaturization means the addition of a substance which renders the original unwholesome. The wood-spirit and other substances used in the making of wood alcohol are poisonous. Hearty drinkers of wood alcohol are killed by paralysis of the nervous system...
...shouted disconcerting questions in such fashion that two more hymns had to be sung - while Evangelist McPherson flushed hotly in her pulpit. Finally, with a laugh which some considered mocking, the Reverend "Bishop" Mrs. Alma White flounced out of her box and Albert Hall. Smart London had no need to notice or to scoff. The third McPherson revival was cancelled, when not even the lower classes could be induced to buy more than...
...from the drift, mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must be, at all times, prepared to defend our country. Watching a group of green recruits grow in our hands into a smoothly-working organization which will in time of need be the mainstay of the defence of our country--therein lies the pride of our profession...
...folly and danger of such a reversion to pre-war distrust need no elaboration. Even if, however, the peril to friendly understanding between two powerful nations latent in this attitude of suspicion be over-looked, it must yet be regretted that the Transcript chose to strike so discordant a note in a day of general welcome and rejoicing...