Word: unless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's fiscal picture must be carefully scanned, and that doesn't mean next year, but now-and . . . not through a colored lens. . . . I am opposed, unless exceptional circumstances arise, to increasing by law the present limit of the national debt. The only way . . . is to begin immediately a radical and substantial cut in Government expenditures...
Five times in the past, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has announced that he was going to "fast unto death" unless political opponents gave way on some point or other. Five times he has lost a few pounds, won all his points, lived on. At high noon one day last week the skinny, 80-pound, 69-year-old Mahatma sat down before a crowd of sympathetic spectators and ate a meal of brown bread, cooked vegetables, oranges and a cup of hot goat's milk. Then he retired to a rustic cot in a room as bare as a Sing Sing...
...Unless these shiny-eyed young hopefuls undergo distinct changes of mind, most of them are destined to become what they would now call failures...
Apprehensive at the number of classes he has slept through, he has enlisted the help of his roommates. But to no avail. Cold water wets him, but does not wake him unless in sufficient quantities to float him. It only irritates him. Other means, such as giving him a hot-foot are similarly unavailing. Experimentation has shown that his ears simply do not function while he is asleep. But it also shows that, oddly enough, his eyes can be awakened while his ears slumber...
...have no kick about working conditions at Harvard, but we feel that the college can and should pay us more," a House dining-hall waitress and A.F. of L. member, said yesterday concerning her local's threat to strike Monday unless the University makes certain concessions...