Word: sidestepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectacular or drastic steps would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just set out to dry up the trickling capital "as an example...
...outlawing jaywalking are odious because they clog the machinery of nature by meddling with the struggle for existence. Hereunto the human race has advanced in wheel-dodging by leaps and bounds. It seems before the new traffic code was adopted, that within another generation the citizen would as deftly sidestep an automobile as he now does a bill collector. But if the race is to be protected, presumably, by such laws, it no one is to be allowed to test his resourcefulness in the face of formidable mechanical foes, if, in a word, jaywalking is to become a lost, because...
...sidestep took place, not in the embattled meeting room of the Resolutions Committee, where the Prohibition plank was being framed, but in the meeting room of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business...
...unimpaired vigor at an age when most of his business contemporaries are dead or retired after lives which in few cases approached his for fullness or success. "There's luck in leisure," he said last autumn when newsgatherers importuned him for a political utterance. As a political sidestep, it was a neat phrase, but it was more than that. It summed up a good deal of the philosophy of a man who understands that the wisdom of power is in its judicious application, and that politics and votes are like finance and dollars in this: the longer...
...most important differences which exist among Christians. Before varieties of Christians can deal unitedly with practical matters they must, says the world-circling Bishop, "face problems of faith and order, of sacrament and authority." Herein the Bishop, an intellectual modernist, departs from the American liberals, whose inclination is to sidestep questions of faith and order, of sacrament and authority. Secondly, it is widely supposed that the non-Catholic churches have come, or are rapidly coming, to close cooperation. But according to Bishop Brent, the Stockholm conference revealed that the breach among the churches, even in practical affairs, is greater than...