Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand miles down the mighty River Congo (larger than any other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows, to keep out both white men and black...
...proper position. Nervous himself, the father explained, directed, called orders in a loud and louder voice. The President got nervous, too. His sun-bleached eyebrows contracted, his freckled cheeks grew hard. He turned his head and said something to the Milwaukeean, something which to bystanders sounded very much like: "Shut up your head or get out of here...
...were changed, we'd have to shut down our plants. Everything in the United States is keyed up to a new pace which started with Prohibition. The speed at which we run our motor cars, operate our intricate machinery, and generally live would be impossible with liquor. No, there is no chance even of modification...
Ford. Stirred by rumors that he would shut down his plant, redesign his new model, Henry Ford boasted, last week: "Our daily production is now 3,500 increasing by several hundred a day. Our present goal is 10,000 daily. When we will reach it I don't know. What we are doing is building for a long run. I am entirely satisfied with the way things are going...
...their efforts to enforce the Volstead Act. "Many of our representative citizens, who would not think of violating any other law, continuously violate the Volstead Act, or conduce to its violation, by buying contraband liquor from bootleggers, thereby enriching the underworld beyond the dreams of avarice. "We cannot shut our eyes...