Word: coped
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...logical conclusion of letting Wet states stay Wet. Although the Justice Department shied away from formulating any specific division of enforcement responsibilities, it apparently meant to confine its activities to interstate liquor shipments and large illicit plants, leaving states to deal with petty leggers and the Treasury to cope with alcohol diversion (under Commissioner Doran) and smuggling (under the Coast Guard and Customs service...
...stiff embroidered cope the Very Reverend William Ralph Inge, "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's stood at the chancel rail and cried...
Heavy on the hands of Secretary of State Stimson hangs the problem of Soviet Russia, which the U. S. has not formally recognized as existing but with which the State Department must nevertheless occasionally, deviously cope. When it was a matter of reminding Russia that, as a signatory of the Pact of Paris, she really should not go to war with China, Statesman Stimson had to utilize the good offices of Foreign Minister Briand of France as interlocutor (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week another ticklish Russian problem arose, Mr. Stimson's second. He felt it advisable to prevent...
Hilda Harlan, very rich, very comely, very sure of herself, always got what she wanted but thought God's will was hers. She had been made pious at an early age and never got over it. When she married Cope Harlan, penniless professor of economics, her family disapproved but had to give in; soon it was Cope who was giving in. Cope was an agnostic; his skepticism quickly ran foul of Hilda's belief in her divine rightness. Their first serious quarrel arose over the baptism of their infant daughter; Cope refused to admit she was "conceived...
...distinctly inferior ability to those who taught him before coming to college. The usual conception of a college education as an intellectual stimulus is completely shattered by this drab practice. It is probably true that the man just out of secondary school is not sufficiently mature to cope with instruction as it is presented to the upper classes; but it is true that upon entering college he must be made to realize the change in educational atmosphere that college presents...