Word: swayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Architect Edouard Moravicz stood nearby admiring his building, last week, when it began to sway ever so little. Horror gripped his throat, his eyes bulged, and then he screamed?well knowing that 120 laborers were at work within the toppling structure...
...affair was aggravated when certain Clubbers told that they had seen the bride sway slightly, as she emerged from her limousine to enter the Oratory, only to be steadied by a Bobbie?a policeman...
...first place, to students from schools where the honor system in any of its various shapes may have held sway, it will doubtless seem strange, and at first unpleasant, that at Harvard all tests above the rank of "section quizzes" are supervised by proctors appointed by the College Office. Their duties are two-fold; not only to see that students do not employ dishonest methods but also to distribute blue books and papers, collect them at the close of the period, sort and check them, and in general take charge of the conduct of the examination. They are not present...
...both sides, openly and secretly, there is a great and unhealthy bigotry. The three R's-religion, race and rum-in the order named will sway thousands upon thousands of voters. Nevertheless, organization is very important, and I look to see the Republicans win because of their superior organization, if for no other reason...
...condition where we will be bone-dry in one State and souse-wet in another, and where churches and schools will elevate one city and gin mills degrade another. States' rights and local option would mean alcohol ad libitum and ad nauseam wherever the whiskey rings held political sway; and that is not a thing to be contemplated in any sort of a sincere temperance program...