Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year in initiating prohibition experimentally in districts of four provinces of British India, especially after Mahatma Gandhi declared that British India could be dry in three years, that prohibition would be one of the Congress' first proofs of its ability to rule India. On moral grounds wets put up a feeble fight, claiming that Indian liquors contained Vitamin B and made for healthy babies. This prohibitionists answered by declaring that drunkards were violent and that there was "no need to drink Vitamin B and beat your wife." But on financial grounds, wets were powerful. In many an Indian...
...diamond, yet softer than a flower," went into action. At the end of it more than 40 had been injured by bullets, blows or bludgeons, a 10 p. m. curfew was clapped on Bombay for 14 days, and assemblies of more than five forbidden. To popularize prohibition, authorities put on showings of Ten Nights in a Barroom, charging 2? to 4? admissions...
...before common dividends in 1914 to a net for common of $50,600,000 in 1915 and $246,300,000 in 1916. Copper went to 28? a pound in 1916 (it was stabilized in the fall of 1917 at 23?). The automobile industry which in 1913 put out 461,500 passenger cars in 1916 built...
...work, she made a string of lecture dates. Partygiver Maxwell gave no parties in Hollywood for other people (her onetime profession), only one on herself, in honor of her visiting friend, the Duchess of Westminster. Hollywood was satisfied when, at a preliminary dinner for 30 intimate friends, Hostess Maxwell put at each lady's plate a live duckling, harnessed in blue and white ribbon...
...American League by eight. To most baseball fans this was not surprising. The majority of pre-season prognosticates had picked the Reds and Yankees as favorites in the 1939 pennant race. What was surprising were the names of the two pitchers who had so far been the push that put them in front: Bucky Walters and Atley Donald...