Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tags (they have no strings) nor discs (they are not round), these cards will bear a triple hyphenated number, the first digits designating an area, the next an industrial group, the third an individual. Lest workers feel they are being numbered like convicts, each number is called an "Account Number" and the published regulations say, "You may have your account number changed at any time by applying to the Social Security Board and showing good reasons for the change...
Swinnerton: An Autobiography describes in an uninspired and methodical fashion the career of an engraver's hard working son who became a publisher's reader, a best-selling novelist, a tireless commentator on English literary figures. Filling the first and best part of his book with accounts of his family's poverty after his father's death, of his first newspaper job at the age of 14, of his goading ambition, Swinnerton gives over most of the remainder to polite, discreet, tedious descriptions of his writing friends and acquaintances. Not in direct, slapdash conflict...
...Particularly do we wish to emphasize that there is at present no sound scientific basis for sterilization on account of immorality or character defect...
...Indies, the South Seas, was pressed into service in 1794 and took part in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and Aboukir Bay. Writing vividly and unconventionally of South Sea natives, of historic battles as they appeared from the powder magazine, John Nicol reaches his highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named Sarah Whitelam, who bore him a son before the twelve...
...glorified vaudeville: glorified to such an extent that at the very beginning it receives the verbal sanction of one William Shakespeare who assures us that the entire production is under his personal supervision. Before very long Shylock, bursting in upon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is required to account for his presence in "Hamlet". Later there is depicted a feud in the best Montague-Capulet fashion, between John Gielgud and Leslie Howard, each of whom gives Beatrile Lillie a front seat ticket for the other's performance, each knowing that the performance will prove only a minor side-show to that amiable...