Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much housing that in Chicago women are sleeping in parks. . . . Too much of the national income goes into the hands of a few. ... A handful of men with their spare cash could buy the output of all the gold and silver mines of North America and many a sovereign State has a smaller income than the net profit of a single industrial magnate...
...Richly and roundly he swore upon Holy Bible this mouth-filling Manx oath: "By the wonderful works that God miraculously wrought in between heaven above and the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I swear to execute the laws of the Isle justly between our sovereign lord the King and his subjects as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish." Indulgently a Manx elder explained: "The backbone of a herring lies 'indifferently'-that is without any 'difference' or deviation to the right or the left...
...year or two, there was a tall English girl with fair hair and a bashful smile, She was Enid Wilson whose father had given her a trip to the U. S. as a reward for winning the British Women's Championship and who carried with her a gold sovereign to give to the first player who beat...
...While the war is being universally renounced as an instrument of national policy, the recent conduct of the Japanese troops in Manchuria, ravaging the sovereign domain of China, is an obstacle to the peace and happiness of all mankind. We, the Chinese students at Harvard University, have watched the development of the situation with particular concern, and feel impelled to submit to the world a statement of facts for its candid judgment...
...political church, which "either follows the dictates of an ecclesiastical head . . . or foists upon the free and sovereign people of our nation a program of selfish and sectarian ambitions...