Word: unless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure of Senator Heflin. The Senator was talking of them. Stung to his feet by the bantering of Senator Copeland of New York, he had risen to renew his attack upon the Catholic influence (TIME, Jan. 31). He had predicted that Dr. Copeland (red carnation) would lose his seat "unless he did some toe-kissing before the next election...
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...preparatory school. The incoming Freshman arrives armed with the requisite number of facts but with a mind whose development has been retarded by the herding which it has undergone continuously from childhood. The mental processes work only in a crowd or with the crowd. Knowledge means nothing unless it is translated into English Composition, Ancient History, Elementary Physics, Geometry. Even then it connotes merely passive listening, repeating and forgetting, never or rarely thinking...
...Tannonbaum remarked that there are some citizens in the United States who consider our southern boundary the Isthmus of Panama. "The United States will never invade Mexico as long as it remains peaceful. There would be no excuse for intervention unless that country is far more turbulent than it has been. Intervention would mean annexation. Only an enormous army, for a long time, would be able to tame Mexico. No good American citizen who believes in the principles of the Constitution wants annexation...
...four horsemen of industrial warfare-strike, death, famine and destruction-are gathering near the borders of the great bituminous coal fields."-NEWS ITEM. That means: the Jacksonville agreement of 1924 between the bituminous union miners and operators expires March 31. Unless a new compromise can be reached, 200,000 miners are likely to strike. The Union Miners are ready; they have money in their pockets.* Their organization has some $400,000 stored up for a war fund. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, "a cross between William Jennings Bryan and James J. Jeffries" (the fighting...