Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration Republicans and several Southern Democrat Senators opposed the amendment, which finally passed only by a 38 to 36 vote. Furthermore, Utah's Reed Smoot (opposed) announced that the amendment would be voted upon again when the tariff bill is reported out by the Committee of the Whole. If the amendment stands, Customs officials can still bar "indecent pictures and transparencies," contraceptives, and books or other printed matter advocating forcible resistance to U. S. law or threatening the persons of U. S. citizens...
...territory containing one million Hungarians plus less than a half-million inhabitants of other nationalities. The proposals verbally quoted by Dr. Rajniss rang true. They sounded like Masaryk, intelligent, magnanimous. Of course they did not envision yielding to the extreme Hungarian irredentist demand: "Czechoslovakia must give us back the whole 14,000 square miles...
...stadium overshadows the classroom . . . athletics have a dollar sign in front of them. . . . Scholarship has been pushed aside and dwarfed. . . . Menace to our whole American educational system. . . . Not vague theories ... I have personal knowledge . . . something radically and fundamentally wrong...
...discrepancy between Christian faith and Christian observation. His hero Levy, yearning after the Christ, changes his name to Lewis. Crossing the River Jordan he arrives, not in the land of milk and honey, but in a welter of May parties, prejudices, Mother's days, fishings, bathings-a whole satirically tinted landscape of Gentile normalities. Lonely, without angels, relatives or the Christ, Lewis quits this stupid paradise, flings himself into the river, returns to the Bread of Life. Author Nathan's mysticism is mischievous, grace ful-perhaps too much so to be taken seriously...
...recognition system" is what governs plebe life. From the day he enters until immediately after Graduation Parade, the Plebe acts as a pledge to a fraternity would during initiation week. He is not known by, nor does he know the upper classes. That is, as a whole. He is called "Mr.----" and refers to individuals of the upper three classes as "Mr.----" also. However; he may be "recognized" by any men who desire to know him. When he is recognized, the Plebe is placed on a social equality basis with the man whom he now knows and no longer sprinkles...