Word: unless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Ontario liquor stores actually opened, however, it quickly became obvious that an "excursionist," unless roped, hog-tied and branded as such, could not possibly be distinguished from a "tourist." Any U. S. citizen who found himself in Ontario and considered himself to be a Canadian tourist could secure a tourist permit and quaff beer, wine, ale, whiskey, champagne, gin, in any legal "residence," including his hotel room...
...relations between Albania and Jugo-Slavia forced on by the latter because of the arrest of a Serb interpreter. The flimsy pretext discloses the immovability of Jugo-Slav opposition to Italy in Albania or anywhere else in the Balkan peninsula. There will be no war this time certainly, but unless imperialistic policy changes its color in the near future there will come sooner or later an explosion. Near Eastern rivalries no more intense set the world aflame on the murder of an Archduke. Interpreters are only a little less serviceable...
...Smith had the support of Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Pittsburgh and of other uncompromising Presbyterian Fundamentalists. Dr. Speer declared that he would not accept election unless it came as a "call," by acclamation...
...johnnies recalled that Man o' War won a "walkover" (one-horse-race) at Belmont Park in his prime, that Exterminator captured the Saratoga Cup in 1921 without opposition. Walkovers are made possible by the racetrack rule that once a race is scheduled it must be run, weather permitting, unless each and every entry drops...
...abruptly. The result is that the engine cannot lift the plane at the angle of the elevator. The plane loses flying speed, slips downward, is likely to crash. A passenger in a well-launched plane from a smooth runway is hardly aware that he has left the ground -unless he peeks...