Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veteran he drifted, like many a veteran pored over military history to find out what had happened during the battles that had been only nightmares of confusion. In Kansas City in 1926 he picked up a pulp magazine, War Stories, decided he could do as well, typed out an account of a war experience...
Five years ago in Majorca Robert Graves, 43-year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...
...ever had- orrl the fact that Country Editor William Allen White voted for Coolidge and wrote a partisan biography in 1925, this biography is a sharpshooting, puncturing book, at once the most human portrait of Coolidge the man, the most devastating portrait of Coolidge the politician, and the best account of the Coolidge bull market that has yet appeared...
...list gave a fairly good account of itself until the Saturday session when heavy disgusted long selling developed and forced prices down fractions to more than two points...
...date the team has twice met bad luck: first, when Appleton was forced to quit practice several days on account of sickness, and then again when Dan Ladd sprained his ankle in practice...