Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is the case, there is still the problem of the advisability of giving the people what they want. Is Congress strictly a representative body obligated to obey every whim of the people, or should it, when occasion arise, hide the candy box? This is a case where the public is not capable of judging for itself, because the facts have not been presented in a manner uncolored by the prejudices of innumerable newspaper editors. Does Congress want to be right in the light of subsequent developments, or right only at the time of the next elections...
...divided into three parts. Certain districts throughout the city will be reserved for business establishments; other districts will be for residences; and still others will have no restrictions whatever. Present buildings not in accordance with the plan will be allowed to remain; but new ones must obey the ruling...
...advisor consults with the student, draws up with him a plan of study, which is submitted to the Committee and checked over to be sure that it complies with the regulations. The rules for concentration, however, are not absolutely hard and fast, exceptions being constantly made for students who obey the spirit of the law although appearing to violate its strict interpretation...
...create contempt for all law." In these words Governor Miller sets forth a fundamental principle. There has been a strong tendency here abouts to place the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law in a class apart and to talk and act as if a citizen were free to obey or to violate them as he chose. Governor Miller recalls people to their senses with the sharp reminder that law is law. To disobey the prohibition law because you don't like it is to give a hold-up man license to take your pocketbook because he doesn't like...
...forcible man in the "ordinary currents of our time." During the war there was the comfort of having a plain duty to perform, with no moral questions to decide. The great object, never lost from sight, was winning the victory; a man's duty his courses prescribed, was to obey orders, and this was true whether he served in the armed forces or as a civilian. But with the ceasing of hostilities this singleness of aim has changed, as man again becomes a self-directed unit. Unity of effort has been succeeded by dispersion of aims, due to post-bellum...