Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Troublous Experiment. Four phases have divided the Norwegian prohibition experiment: 1914-17? prohibition instituted by decree as a measure of War-time economy and finally enacted as a law by parliament; 1917-19?growing urban resentment against the 12% limit, culminating in a national referendum (1919) which upheld prohibition 489,660 to 305,241; 1919-23?demands by Spain and Portugal that the wines of those countries be admitted to Norway, were backed up by those nations with the temporary erection of a tariff wall "prohibiting" the sale of Norwegian fish to their nationals, an act which...
Trinity Church, on Broadway opposite Wall Street, two centuries ago owned approximately 60 acres of Manhattan land between Broadway and the Hudson River. Much other land has been donated since. Much has been sold. Trinity still is a very great landlord, and, like all great landlords of urban property, cannot keep supervision on its tenants-be they banks, brothels or Macfaddens...
While this "advanced" legislation is taken at its face value by urban inhabitants, the peasantry still cleave to the old forms and customs of marriage observed immemorially...
...minded may object to the culture-colored conviction of its toll. No other could object. Bells enough there are of the efficiency variety. This is not an efficient bell. It might have hung there for centuries. The tone is ancient--deep throated--a voice worthy to sound above "the urban noises" of an urbane Cambridge...
...present Soviet regime persists in its announced determination not to increase the burdens of the peasantry. Firmly entrenched against this view are the "economic opposition," a not unimportant group inspired by Professor Alexander Preobajensky and countenanced by Trotsky who demand that the peasantry support the re-organization of the urban proletariat...