Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventy-five years the movement has been gathering headway. A state will adopt prohibition and then find that it does not work so well as was expected. The resulting disappointment gives the liquor forces their opportunity. The prohibitory law is repealed, but it does not stay repealed. The contrast is convincing. The state generally finds that even though prohibition did not work so well as was expected, it worked better than anything else that the state tried. Some states have enacted, repealed and re-enacted, more than once. In the end the state stays dry. That, in a nutshell...
...Local prohibition, under local option, has had the same story. A town or county will go dry, then wet, and then dry again. But in the long run more go dry than wet, and more and more stay...
...light (see p. 26), Dr. Willard James Fisher of Harvard Observatory anticipated an unusual brightening of darkness. He reminded U. S. stargazers that this year the Leonid meteor display will be the most brilliant since 1866. Star lovers who want to see the cosmic fireworks will have to stay up late during the first week of November, watch from midnight on without blinking. One blink may cause the watcher to miss a meteor which shines for less than 1 sec. Best astronomical advice is to keep an eye upon the constellation Leo (south of the Big Dipper) from which...
...brothers and sisters who wanted to break away to a life of their own. First it was Paget, whose girl was not only penniless but not good enough. Matt considered, for a Welland. Then it was Tom, who twice got away but whose gutlessness drove him back finally to stay. Jenny ran off one rainy night to be married, but her conscience drew her home and into the wreck that left her a spiteful cripple. The ghost of Sophie's lover, forbidden her because he was an agnostic, haunted her at last into suicide. Ruth's disastrous first...
...CRIMSON refers to the Police Commissioner "who has been astonishingly vigorous since he has been in power," under whose administration took place a total relaxation of law and order during the stay of the Legion. This situation calls for the attention of the Anti-Saloon League and other bodies interested in the Eighteenth Amendment. It has been suspected that one important reason for the failure of enforcement of the Dry Law is the fact that the Drys themselves do not wish it enforced when the recoil would be too violent...