Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while silk-hatted notables stood by. These ceremonious alarums celebrated the opening of the new Mt. Hope suspension bridge, world's seventh largest, connecting the two sea-severed fragments of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Best ceremony: initiation of Rhode Island's Governor Norman Stanley Case and State Senator William H. Vanderbilt into the Wamapoag Indian tribe...
...Tiger asks: "Is war really the natural condition of all living creatures? The controlling law of the universal struggle for existence so decrees! We have only to look about us to become convinced of the fact. Everything conflicts. . . . 'Economic war' is the current phrase for describing this state of affairs. ... I will not dwell on the pacific phraseology in which we disguise economic war, which, quite as much as armed conflicts, sheds the blood of the weak in order to increase the vital resources of the strong. The case is too plain to admit of argument...
...awarding scholarships to students who are potentially valuable athletes. (Examples: Pennsylvania State College, New York University, Colgate, Syracuse, University of Southern California...
...caring for'* a more or less definite number of athletes, somewhat less formally than by awarding athletic scholarships." (The number discovered at the following institutions varied from 25 to 50: Bucknell, Gettysburg, Muhlenberg, Oglethorpe, Pennsylvania State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia Wesleyan...
Uniformity. The general desire for uniform state laws found expression in several recommendations of the Association. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Siate Laws was ordered to draft a law, to be presented to the state legislatures, providing for a scientific treatment of criminals. The statute is to grant psychiatric service for all criminals, and before any criminal is sentenced for a felony in which the judge has any discretion as to the sentence, a psychiatrist report must be filed as part of the court record. Until such a report is filed no felon is to be released. Resolutions...