Word: ruralization
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...which have never been held in U. S. history, all Constitutional amendments heretofore having been ratified by the Legislatures, at Congress' direction. Thus a fresh series of local Wet-Dry fights must be fought since Wets consider that present apportionments of representation in many Legislatures vastly favor the rural (normally Dry) populace, and the proposed conventions are to be, the national parties agree, "truly representative...
...becomes infatuated with Zud, and Balkis has to win her way by wile. It is no peaceful time in Jerusalem. The Ephraimites revolt, the Shebans attempt to steal the holy ark. Zud runs away. Balkis learns a thing or two from Solomon, more elsewhere. Zud takes up with a rural god who, besides his other attributes, owns 500 sheep and a cottage in the hills. In the end Balkis goes home, the continuance of her dynasty assured. Solomon resumes his search for something new under the sun among his regular wives...
Impartial House observers rate him thus: a mediocre legislator, experienced in the mechanics of lawmaking, who has been popped into a position of importance by the accidental meeting of Hard Times and Democratic control of the House: a solid, substantial citizen, loyal to his own rural system of economics and alien to the -Wall Street idea," who has put aside partisanship to cooperate to the limit of his ability with a Republican administration...
...nearly 2,000 years leeches have been used in phlebotomy. As late as 100 years ago leech gathering was a major rural occupation in Europe, but nowadays among physicians the speech is in bad repute. Nonetheless, in Manhattan last week Reporter A. J. Liebling of the World-Telegram interviewed one Bernhard Berkitz who for 35 years has made his living as a leech-dealer...
Canadians, more rural than U. S. residents, are less self-destructive. Average rate for the Dominion's large cities was 14.9 per 100,000. But Victoria last year rated 20.8, Saskatoon 22.3, Vancouver...