Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voted before he ever saw the sea or any Eastern city. Steeped in the Hoosier tradition, his 30-odd volumes of verse, essay, fiction, reflect the atmosphere of politics and pioneers...
...power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot, to promote reverence and respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and to so conduct myself in public affairs, and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon the Holy Church, to the end that she may flourish and our country prosper to the greater honor and glory...
...honest church man was puzzled and annoyed. The proposed controversy was one in which they might not remain neutral. Their sympathies were not with the presidential candidate. Hence they were forced to take the side of the fundamentalist clergyman. But before they did so, even as he had cast reflections upon Governor Smith's record, they found it advisable to reflect upon Dr. Straton...
...grace 1928, the U. S. continues to get along with a Congress and an Electoral College modeled as of the year 1910. Every ten years the census is taken and every ten years the people's Representatives in the House are supposed to be allocated afresh, to reflect growth and shift of populations in the 435 Congressional districts. But Reapportionment with the 1920 census as a basis has been consistently blocked by Congressmen whose States had either no seat to gain or a seat or two to lose if the Constitution were obeyed...
French editors professed to be shocked, last week, that the U. S. had lavished on naval appropriations, since the armistice, five times as much as France. Citizens of the U. S. are vexed when they reflect that France has lavished enough to pay off one-fifth of her debt...