Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some the achievement of Smart Ivan Bratt will seem inadequate; and it was with their view well in mind that he resigned as Sweden's "Liquor Tsar" last week. A Parliamentary report on the workings of the Bratt System is being prepared, prior to a national liquor plebiscite, and Dr. Bratt wants to be free to assist and testify before the investigators...
Some people still think that to have halved the liquor consumption of Sweden, while at the same time making bootleggery unprofitable, is not enough. That view is not shared by His Majesty Gustav V, 70-year-old tennis-playing King of Sweden, who, from the first, has encouraged, befriended and warmly praised Ivan Bratt...
...admire all brave men. We regret his predicament as we regret the predicament of the "Italia" which has cost Italy the lives of several equally as brave if not as renowned men, but we must insist that Nobile is in no way responsible for Amundsen's predicament. . . . In view of such dirigible disasters as the Shenandoah. the Dismeale, the Roma and the R34 and especially the ZR-2, it is a wonder and marvel that the "Italia" stood up as it did buffeted by Arctic cyclones and blizzards...
...important thing about that nicely woodworked room is the view. It includes in the distance the Golden Gate; near to the eye, Stanford University grounds; and, chiefly, a great redwood tree, solitary, centuries old, unique because no-other redwood ever grew so high at such an elevation. That tree is Stanford's emblem. Emblem and motto, joined on shield, hang on the wall by the desk on which the Hoover speech was cast and recast. The motto: "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." It is the only U. S. college motto in German just as Hoover, according to the tradition...
...Straton started a crusade against Manhattan "night-life." He spoke from his pulpit of painted women who "plied their trade"; he described with astonishing intimacy the nudity on view in Aphrodite, a current revue. So detailed were his accounts that many members of his congregation deserted it and some of the trustees took exception to his eloquence...