Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...academic question, but the statistics that suggest it were published last week in the annual report of U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Dr. James M. Doran. In fiscal 1927, 11,818 Prohibition law violators were sentenced to a grand total of 4,477 years in jail...
...Swedish inventor of dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, did not, strictly speaking, found and endow a "Peace Prize." Phrasemakers coined that term. It has come to suggest a shining award, fit only for such world-great champions as Theodore Roosevelt, who won it in 1906, or Woodrow Wilson, to whom it fell in 1918. Yet the words of M. Nobel are clear. What he founded and endowed was no simple "Peace Prize" but an award "for fraternization among nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the calling and propagating of peace congresses...
...More than 30 years ago he gained cheap fame with the pamplet Caligula." Indeed, few Germans could recall, last week, the full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace societies, he loomed, last week, as a distinguished "fraternizer...
...gold piece is offered to the student who can suggest the best name for the new Restaurant that is being built by Mr. John Whouley, proprietor of Hazen's Sandwich Shop, it was announced today...
...will be interrupted and every man will be free to plan his work as he will, subject to a minimum of interference from stated College engagement's. It would be wise therefore to handle these six weeks as a whole and to distribute one's work accordingly. I would suggest therefore...