Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...civilized minority holds sway." Mr. Martin is skeptical, not to say suspicious, of the present trend of social organization. "It is precisely because it seems to be necessary to give up so many social liberties in modern industrial society that mankind must guard its personal rights with stubborn vigilance. . . . Resort to legislation should be the very last remedy proposed for the removal of abuse. ... If you would keep your power over yourself, keep it off your neighbor...
Last fortnight many a resident of Newport, fashionable Rhode Island resort town, saw something few landlubbers ever see: a white whale. All week the great mammal hung close to shore, often displayed a 25-ft. expanse of white back...
...know the dangers attendant upon the method adopted by me, but my country is not likely to mistake my meaning. I say what I mean and think. The only way to conquer violence is through non violence, pure and undefiled. "If, in spite of repeated warnings, the people resort to violence, I must disown responsibility and you may condemn civil disobedience as much as you like. Will you prefer a violent revolt? "History will pronounce the verdict that the British Government, not bearing because not understanding, goaded human nature to violence, which it could understand how to deal with." Shrewd...
Because of the refusal by the administration of permission to use University bulletin boards and balked by the same situation among storekeepers on the Square, the Square Deal Association has announced that it will resort to the most direct method of reaching the public, that of having a sandwich man walk the sidewalks of the Square carrying notices of the dance...
...services as Chairman of the War Industries Board. Memories of this last occupation gave him material for a speech before the Boston Chamber of Commerce last week. While of late he has been devoting himself to the development of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., as a State health resort, this speech concerned not the health of humans but the economic health of the world...