Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since repeal the gruesome Monday ceremony (attended by two maintenance men with rakes and sacks) of collecting and burning all the odds and ends left on the field, under the stands, and on the seats, has grown less and less arduous. Bottles are placed in the middle of the huge pile of programs and labels burned off. Amid the popping of corks and the vaporization of many dregs, the maintenance men lean on their rakes and size up the visiting team from the size and quality of its "bottled goods...
Month ago he reached a high point of eloquence when, in one sentence, he declared: "The most unbelievable, the most astounding, the most cataclysmic occurrence of this period will have been the championship by both major parties of a policy of government [i.e. Repeal] the consequences of which are the deterioration, the degradation, the enslavement, yes, even the death of multitudes of American citizens...
Acting in advance of President Conant's return from Europe next Monday, the Student Council last night passed a resolution asking for the repeal of the "one sole woman" parietal rule and a revision and standardization of the old rule...
Past Presidents of Princeton have been so engrossed in academic pursuits that they failed to see the world tumbling down about them. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act, and John Grier Hibben led the movement for Repeal in New Jersey. But science tells us the climate is changing, and so it might be cooler now in Palmer Stadium than it was ten or twenty years ago, with a resultant rise in the consumption of alchohol. Or perhaps they believed, as this paper does, that drinking in a stadium, where neighboring eyes should be on the pigskin, not the bottle...
...basis of monthly figures on tax-paid liquor withdrawals issued by the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue and monthly figures on automobile deaths issued by the National Safety Council, A. B. M. R. F. started two lines across a graph representing the 31 months since Repeal. One line represented liquor consumption, the other automobile deaths. The two lines wobbled along, moving up and down from index 0 to index 115, but always their courses were almost exactly parallel. Each line fluctuated regularly with the seasons. As automobile deaths increased from the annual low in January or February...