Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote for the biggest kind of U. S. fleet, hoarsely warning them against the imperialism of Great Britain. His name was William B. Shearer. He was in his early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well-heeled, he was a generous entertainer. Quick of temper, he once threatened to "knock the hell" out of a Washington correspondent (Ray Tucker) who dared dispute his word. Quickly he was recognized as the most potent Big-Navy lobbyist in Washington. Whom or what he represented remained a mystery...
...well aware that more of the girls and women employed in offices and industry are drinking now than was the case ten years ago. . . . [But] as far as the women of the country are concerned. Prohibition has come to stay...
...Well knowing that the Austrian Government, with an army reduced to a scattered force of 30,000 men by the Treaty of St. Germain, cannot enforce the Cabinet's orders, bristling Schutzbund and Heimwehr leaders grew more than ever violent in language as the week progressed. Cried fiery Dr. Pfrimer, Vienna Heimwehr Commander: "For our brothers whom the Schutzbund have slain, the Heimwehr will take revenge in a form that will be remembered for many a long...
...triumph the Chinese Nationalists broke with the Soviet Govern-ment (TIME, April 25, 1927) which had so largely financed their successful revolution. Comrade Blücher returned to Moscow. His assignment last week to command the Soviet Eastern Army, massed along China's Manchurian frontier, was a shrewd, logical stroke, well calculated to shake Chinese morale...
...Circle for Colored People, explained the southern lack of nurse training: "The neglect of health is not so much unfairness and prejudice of the white toward the Negro as it is a complete lack of interest. This condition exists not only among the Negroes but among the whites as well. The climate, of course, has something to do with it. The people there have never been taught the fundamental rules of health...