Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yes, sick," he went on, "and tired of this whole stupid business. Here I've given four of the best years of my life, and the whole time I've been nothing better than'a fireman. That's all there is to this college. Just a big fire-house. Wake up by a bell ringing, jump into your clothes and run some place. And then every hour there's another bell and you get up and run somewheres else...
Another: Down to the last of the Bourbons. Let's see what was that trouble with the Bourbons called? Oh, yes, the Whiskey Rebellion...
...find this Yard a convenient dumping ground for four years. The rest of you, who can ill afford the price, whose place is in the ranks of the workers,--the true aristocracy of the world,--you are here too, aping the manners of your companions, dressing, walking, yes rotting like them, because you think it will give you prestige...
...Roosevelt says that it is now almost impossible to know what is the will of the people, because every election is confused by a multiplicity of issues and personalities. Did the American people vote down the League in 1920? Some say yes; others...
Result of a poll of the National Council of the National Economic League: 1) Should the United States enter the League of Nations with such reservations as may be acceptable to the Government of the United States? Yes-890. No-327. 2) Should the United States join in supporting the World Court? Yes-1,173. No-51. 3) Should the United States promote the holding of an international economic conference ? Yes-937. No-237. 4) Scale down the war debts owed to the U. S. ? Yes-625. No- 477. 5) Is France justified in the Ruhr? Yes...