Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whereas, the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is productive of pauperism, degradation and crime, and believing it is our duty to discourage that which produces more evil than good, we therefore pledge ourselves to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.
Whereas, good government demands obedience to law, I will stand for enforcement of all laws, including the prohibition of the liquor traffic. I here now, in the presence of Almighty God and my colleagues, sign this pledge.
Judging from the small number of votes cast in three days of balloting, the Bok Prize Peace Plan does not command the same enthusiastic attention given recently to the Prohibition referendum. Whereas nearly three thousand men voted on the latter question in one day, there have been so far only...
"Whereas we believe that the question of student drinking is not entirely a moral one but essentially a legal one, since the Prohibition law is an integral part of the Constitution of the United States and must be respected and enforced as such;
Merely as an examination of a candidate's background of acquired facts and his ability to correlate them, the New Plan has decided advantages. To cram during a few weeks previous to the examination upon material studied during approximately four years' preparation is well-nigh impossible, or so it seems...