Word: unless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dozen emblems have been suggested- only to be fiercely denounced by one side or the other. The Dutch (Boers) would have none of the Union Jack, seeing in that emblem a sign of their defeat by the British; the English-speaking section would no more tolerate the republican flags, unless the Union Jack were an integral part of a new national flag, seeing in their presence a movement designed to set up a republic, thus seceding from the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Turkish Republic was holding its first census. From the first streak of dawn to the last shadow of dusk all citizens were ordered to remain within their doors; none might venture out unless with an official permit. All day long 50,000 census takers, accompanied by police and soldiers, counted heads, took names, ages, religions, professions, native languages spoken, examined for health and applied simple educational tests, while the suspicious populace, quietly submitting to the inquisition, wondered if all the counting of heads was to assist the taxgatherer in his unwelcome rounds...
...other a mixture of bombast and cant," says one decrier of the literary note in Mr. Tunney's public statements. "A pugilist reading Hegel is about as appropriate as the dean of a woman's college singing. 'I'm Gonna Dance Wit' the Guy What Brung Me' says another. Unless he wishes to go down in history as the first champion to take an intellectual beating Mr. Tunney would do well to look to his Voltaire...
...that, as their industry is to a great extent run on borrowed capital and therefore has high interest charges to meet, they cannot afford to increase the level of wages, despite the fact that the total sum involved for the entire industry is something less than $100,000, unless they raise the cost to the consumer, and this the government, which controls mining, will not let them...
...York and spokesman for U. S. producers, regards the combination as a menace. Said he last week: "Is there an American with soul so dead as not to thrill at this threat? . . . What was our position in 1914? That position can come again and will come again unless all the American people unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon fight or a fight for European or Asiatic markets. No, it is a fight to reassert European...