Word: robs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interfered with the right of contract. Mr. Taft insisted that if the majorities' opinion is sound it becomes unconstitutional to regulate working hours or working conditions and that a return to the sweat shop might result. Justice Holmes declared that giving the vote to women did not rob them of the right of protection ; that it had changed the Constitution of the United States, but had not changed the constitution of women...
...indications are that there will be more fun-for Mr. See is writing a book on education. His style has the rare naivete of Rob Benchley (dramatic critic of Life), and he should go far as a humorist. Meanwhile he has lost a great opportunity to enhance his reputation, by refusing to debate the question of female intelligence with a woman...
...unusual melodic progression and strange and mingled harmonies. The open chords at the beginning are effective; they seem to tell of mystery and paganism. The Christmas song of Arnold Bax's is rousing and tuneful, but the interpositions of the little gig,--admirably played by M. Laurent,--seem to rob the piece of some degree of unity. Of the three choral hymns from the RigVeda, the "Hymn to Soma" is the most striking. "To Agni" is lively and the music surges and dies and surges again like a sea of flame. The climax of "To Agni" is extremely powerful...
...Committee will hold office hours today in Randolph 52 between 4 and 6 o'clock. The following applications are unassigned: The Red-Headed League, Hennessey's Three Stars, The Greasy Grinds, Optimists, Where-You-Bot-the-Hat, Boob McNutt, Khuram Khan, U. R. Innoazark, Everett H. Winthrop, Rob Roy, Capt. Blood's Crew...
...that body whenever the interests of the Indian conflict with those of the white man: "To ascertain and settle land-claims of persons not Indian within the Pueblo lands, land-grants, and reservations" is the statement in its preamble, but outsiders have pronounced it a poorly disguised attempt to rob the Indians of what little land they have left. And this, in spite of the possession by each chieftain of the tribe of a silver-headed cane--a gift received by his predecessor from Abraham Lincoln as a guarantee of ownership, for ever and ever...