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...beer control problem back upon the states, few of which are ready to deal with it. When in 1920 New York passed an enforcement act, it repealed its excise laws for liquor regulation. When in 1923 it repealed the same act, its statutes were left bare of authority to cope with the saloon. In many a state last week governors announced they would not tinker their local laws?or lack of them?until the 18th Amendment was repealed...
...feeling for beauty, and his strong passion are contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...
This supposition that Honesty, goodwill, and earnestness can cope with the problems of today is almost unbelievable in its easy optimism. It is an innocent trust in divine harmony which outdoes even the optimism of H. G. Wells's faith in indefinite progress and the attainment of the millennium through the help of science and the popularization of knowledge...
...fifty years ago on November 10 when Dartmouth sent her first football team to Cambridge. In those days there was no stadium, there was the flying "V", and Dartmouth provided opposition which, according to the Boston Globe "might possibly be able to cope with Boston Latin School." A half a century of rivalry has seen a complete reversal of conditions, it has beheld the development of football from a sport to a major business, it has bound two institutions with the thread of tradition, of mutual respect...
...York. Last year he set aside a section of his estate near Camden, S. C. as a sanctuary for ancient mules and offered to pay $20 apiece for broken down jacks and jennies until the mule migration from North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama became more than he could cope with...