Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War II, 1,700 temperate Christian delegates heard President Ida B. Wise Smith proclaim that "there is no doubt prohibition will return-the only question is when." The W.C.T.U. wants prohibition or nothing. Says Mrs. Ella Boole, world president of W.C.T.U.: "Moderation points the way to excessive indulgence. Total abstinence closes the door. We have always been opposed to moderation...
...potions designed to show the superiority of nonalcoholic drinks over alcoholic ones), witnessed a pageant called "World Night" directed by Mrs. Boole, who announced that the war was interfering with the society's work, tied white ribbons on the wrists of twelve infants whose mothers pledged them to total abstinence, minimized the loss of Tennessee from the dry column, re-elected Mrs. Smith president, went home to their dry houses...
...thirty-nine years ago when an instructor named Mr. Coolidge took his place in the Harvard mathematics department. 'Gradually the influence of his personality has spread. His imposing marches through the Yard, his witty mathematics classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality, have become as much a part of life here as John Harvard's statue or the elms in the Yard. We hope that Professor Coolidge, even after his retirement, will not make his absence too sharply felt by withdrawing completely from the scenes in which he has taken so great a part...
Three more men were promoted to the Red squad, bringing the total to 33 players. Those elevated were Summers, Tom Lacey, husky guard, and Hank Vander Eb, back. Of this squad of 33, thirty will make the trip to Chicago on Thursday...
Natural Sham. A typical compilation of 1939 magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree...