Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...federal enforcement. The difficulty appears to be that although a majority of the population of the country favor Prohibition, a large and compact minority in one section--along the Atlantic seaboard--not only disapprove of but openly defy this law. When enforcement officers and even the judiciary in this "wet" belt are bought off, execution of the law becomes extremely difficult. In fact the propriety of having so rigid a law is seriously called in question...
With the close of the Jackson Cup tennis singles last Friday afternoon, tennis players and fans are turning their attention to the Union tennis tournament, which begins today on the Jarvis Courts. Although scheduled to begin yesterday, the preliminary matches were prevented by wet courts. As a result, 30 matches begin today, comprising 60 of the 97 men who have drawn places in the tournament singles...
...Government began a retreat from the high, dry mountain of Prohibition to the low, wet valleys in the land of Bacchus; the National Assembly renounced prohibition by substituting a new liquor...
...graduate and undergraduate supporters of polo. If such a sum were added to the anonymous gift for a baseball cage, it seems natural to suppose that a building could be constructed which would serve the purpose of the contemplated baseball cage and also of a riding hall and wet-weather football field. Incidentally the University as a whole would be spared the eventual expense of two separate buildings and the more immediate disgrace of entirely ineffective polo teams...
...technique is not all?is merely an instrument?is never brittle?the insight pierces deep and is very clear. A world built up of tiny, crystalline fragments?but a world that will remain when many great fictional constellations now spinning in the literary void have expired like wet fireworks...