Word: outgrowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...population to contribute to the greatness of America in practically every field of endeavor, without allowing them a voice in the government is nothing less than an abridgement of liberty. The subordinate position of women, which nineteen centuries of the Christian era have only just managed to outgrow was a survival from barbaric times, when early man first discovered that he was physically stronger than his mate. The passing by the Sixty-Sixth Congress of the proposed Nineteenth Amendment marks the final step in the breaking down of this age-old prejudice, based as it is upon the bestial...