Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volstead Act is a law. However much we may object to its provisions, we cannot sanction its disregard by the States. Only two means of killing the present act are legitimate, either that it shall be thrown out by the Supreme Court, or that it shall be repealed by the Congress of the United States...
...time, the Union is a club in the stricter sense for many undergraduates. Its library, lounging rooms, restaurant, store, billiard and pool rooms have made it of primary importance to men who do not use other clubs. For this reason it is not desirable that the Union should be thrown open at any time to every student whether or not he shows enough interest to join. Its internal affairs must remain the concern of its members. This is why, under the new plan, the Undergraduate Committee in charge of administration is very properly elected by the members alone. In place...
...mere theories, of any kind, are not very satisfying when hundreds of thousands are thrown out of work and millions are seriously inconvenienced. The public does know that the strike came without warning, that it does not call for any definite program, and that its success means the undoing of much of the progress that has been made in collective bargaining. Whatever the mystery of the strike may be, the public knows that it is not receiving fair treatment; and the outlaw strikers, standing against the tide of public sentiment, have lost more than half the battle...
...General Wood was born in New Hampshire in 1860. When he was three months old his family moved to Massachusetts, where his boyhood was spent, principally on Cape Cod. As a youth he was thrown on his own resources, attended the Harvard Medical School, graduated therefrom in 1884, and afterwards served in the Boston City Hospital as house officer. One of his chiefs there has told me that General Wood was one of the most efficient surgical internes with whom he ever came in contact. Becoming restless at the inactivity in Boston of the position of a young doctor struggling...
...Great War," said Senator Lodge, "has shaken to its foundations the entire fabric of society, business and industry. On the continent of Europe the economic and industrial organization has been shattered. In England and the United States it has been shaken and thrown out of gear. Therefore, a vast work of reconstruction confronts all great nations of western civilization, and the United States is not exempted from this task. We, too, need wise measures of reconstruction...