Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Canada prohibit the clearance of ships of less than 250 tons carrying liquor to any port in the world (the inference being that such small vessels are unfit for high seas trade and only intend to smuggle liquor into this country...
These Miracle Plays were originally acted in the churches. They were all variations on Biblical themes. As time went on, however, the trade guilds took them over. With no change of subject, but a great deal of improvement in the form, the guild plays gradually, developed into pre-Elizabethan drama. Several groups of these plays have come down...
...good feeling is made possible by America's renunciation of the humiliating concessions which have been forced from Turkey in the past. Coupled with the treaty provisions which permit American vessals to cruise in Turkish waters this friendlier feeling should prove a stimulus to the gradually expanding Turkish American trade...
America's manner of acquiring the Panama Canal Zone has helped to make South American states suspicious of an expanding northern neighbor, and as a result, trade has declined. With the changed conditions it is highly expedient that the United States once more make clear her relations to her southern neighbors. Two courses lie open: either to assert baldly a policy of maintaining peace in South America or to treat them as "grown up sisters". Perhaps the latter plan would prove less troublesome. At any rate a new definition of relations is necessary...
...then described the various types of phenomena known as psychic. He said in part: "The first group,-- physical phenomena includes rappings, strange voices, the movement of inanimate objects "hauntings" and other outward manifestations of the supernatural--all the things, in other words, which constitute the stock in trade of an ordinary spiritualistic medium...