Word: strives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand Dr. MacLennan will strive to show that the old fashioned marriage is the only way to preserve the sanctity of the home...
...issue. It was the most notable uprising of the kind since Milwaukee went Socialist in 1910. Of some 26,000 votes cast, Socialist J. Henry Stump, running for mayor, and his colleagues, won nearly half. Democrats and Republicans divided the other half. Said Mayor-elect Stump: "We will strive to make the future brighter for the men & women of the working class...
...flying schools. Strict regulation of qualifications required of a pilot in commercial flying and especially in passenger carrying. "A number of States have adopted the Department of Commerce regulations, but the majority have either no regulation whatsoever or have enacted special rules which will, in the end, only strive to retard aeronautical development...
...having printed: "Old Glory will still be on the cover, but in addition to that I've put down below it another picture with the international flag flying above Old Glory, with a serpent on it. And the text will say that all blue noses will strive through the League of Nations, the World Court and other instruments for foreign entanglements, to tear our flag down, and that a vote for foreign entanglements is a vote for frequent wars...
Throughout the land the ignorant are toiling over puzzles, prize contests, "cinema titles," "Presidents' faces." Lamps burn in many garrets long after the day's work is finished while slaves to the dream of puzzle riches ponder and strive. Seduced by the promises of advertisement and feature contests, (arranged by canny publishers to force-feed circulation), the slaves work endlessly. Earnest, stupid, they know not that they have scarcely one chance in one thousand to win the prize...