Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must accustom ourselves to think that this capitalist system with all its virtues and defects will continue to rule the world for centuries. In countries where it has been physically suppressed it is again appearing...
Venizelos freed the island of Crete, his birthplace, from Turkish dominion and brought it under Greek rule (1890-1909). He organized the Balkan League, which thrust Turkey back from considerable European territory in the Balkan War of 1912. After the World War, Venizelos proved himself easily the greatest diplomat among the representatives of minor powers at the Paris Peace Conference. His "enticing charm"-as one statesman expressed it-won for Greece so much added territory that the Greco-Turkish frontier is now but 20 miles from Constantinople...
...purgatives and cathartics.* On the household medicine shelf is the array of epsom salts, castor oil and compound cathartic pills or their masked coordinates. The housewife has learned from a long chain of gossips to use these whenever any of her progeny complain of stomach ache, and as a rule she is safe in their use, for the really serious stomach and intestinal disorders are comparatively rare...
...marriageable young Connecticut authoress of our time. Then they make it clear that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling the end, shocking though it is; Miss Macfadyen has devised with restraint worthy of emulation. She handles substance as deftly as shadow and abides by Rule 1 for horror-writers?"The brighter the sun, the blacker the shade...
...only are the women forced into the mills but also the children of working age are found applying for work. New Jersey law allows employment of children at 14 years of age provide that they attend "continuation school" two half days a week for two years. This rule is invariably followed. Boys and girls at this age enter the mill and do machine work almost equal to that of adult operatives receiving from $8 to $12 for a 48-hour week. They are employed on either day or night shifts. From early childhood these children have little to anticipate except...