Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borger situation was similar to that in Mexia. City and county officials were conniving with scofflaws, winking at murders, sponsoring speakeasies and brothels. General Wolters supplanted the conniving officials with his Texas Rangers. Khaki-clad patrolmen directed traffic, policed the suddenly quiet streets. Drinkers no longer rioted in wide-open saloons but tippled alone at home behind locked doors. Bootleggers and daughters of joy, hearing the oldtime frontier command to "get out of town by sundown," scuttled away. The women barbers changed to clothes from pajamas...
...There is no doubt," editorialized Santiago's La Nation, "that yesterday's criminal act has given President IbaÑez a new popularity in the public mind, similar to a great extent to that occasioned for the Italian Premier after the various unsuccessful attacks against...
...tackle for a 22-yard run. More convincing, however, was the performance of the slippery and elusive Mays. The Sophomore flash, injected in the game in the second quarter, led the Crimson in its drive for its first score, dashing and squirming through the Southerners in a manner similar to Marsters. He crossed the Floridans line again in the fourth quarter but the score was disallowed because of a penalty...
...place. Many archeologists have believed that the beautiful carving of these capitals indicated a date well advanced in the twelfth century and that the capitals must, therefore, have been sculptured long after they were set in place. The bit of carving to which attention has just been called and similar passages on other capitals prove that this is not the case and that the capitals are to be regarded as masterpieces of the eleventh and not of the twelfth century...
...that this alleged hostility affects trade between the two continents. If this were true, we would recognize this bad feeling in the reduction of the sale of American wares, which are readily identified as such by markings and general appearances--our motor cars, safety razors, electrical devices, typewriters and similar finished manufactures which, sold as they are under trade names, are conspicuously American. Has Europe allowed her supposed enmity to limit her purchase of these...