Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...
International Railways of Central America is not a United Fruit subsidiary. It was originally financed from London as, in 1904, U. S. capital did not venture much beyond U. S. borders. Gradual transition from British to U. S. ownership was completed in 1927 when J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. of Manhattan became financial sponsor. The directorate is now exclusively Manhattan. Though independent, I. R. C. A. nevertheless maintains close relations with United Fruit. Minor Keith is its board chairman. And the two companies have a 33⅓% discount agreement by which United Fruit passengers and freight travel...
...birdseye view of the members of the Senior class, from the man who was in college one year as an undergraduate to the distinguished individual who lists five sports and innumerable committee and executive positions. Of the man who spent his four years in conscientious searching after truth and gradual strengthening of the fibres of his character there will be little more to be seen than of those who toiled not but spun in perhaps ever decreasing circles...
...keeping with such a definite policy and with the gradual increase in equipment of minor sports some revision in the status of awards towards the adoption of a uniform not dependent on the season's scores should be forthcoming at the June meeting of the Athletic Committee which will consider the question...
Aside from a gradual increase in Freshmen concentrating in Geology, numbering 17, and in Mathematics with 34 men and an advance to 53 men taking History and Literature there are no unusual changes. Anthropology claims only three students, which is a great decrease from two years ago when the rule was made restricting concentration in this department to men in or above the fourth group of the rank list...