Word: taming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Work Among the Garos of Assam in India. Sixty years ago the British decided not to exterminate the head-hunting Garos, asked U. S. Baptists to tame and educate them...
...small towns (nominally Republican) control more seats in the State Senate than populous Providence. In his zeal for this reform one local Democratic candidate referred to the villagers as "skunkhunters." A cry of rage swept the State. Meetings were held to which the villagers came by thousands leading tame skunks, dressed like back woodsmen, intent on making "skunkhunting" a title of honor. Felix Hebert hoped to be re-elected to the U. S. Senate, not as a Republican, not as a passionate music lover, but as a skunkhunter. Nonetheless Rhode Island turned to a onetime polo player and yachtsman...
...tons of tame hay as against a five-year average...
...plain readers today will find it hard to believe that she was ever in a state of eruption. Famed as the popularizer of "It," she still enjoys a smoky reputation which is mostly smokescreen. Many a nonreader who smacks over the supposed lubricities of Three Weeks would find it tame and harmless stuff. Elinor Glyn was a scandalous sensation to 1907, but 1934 will find her guilty of a less forgivable...
...Tame compared to Chairman Kennedy's threats was the Commission's first official ruling: none of the 200-odd clerks, office boys, stenographers and other employes it is about to hire may buy securities on margin or otherwise speculate on the market. They may buy securities outright but must notify the Commission of any such purchases within 48 hours...