Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase of violence in juvenile delinquency, he said, goes hand in hand with the increase of comic books. Said Dr. Wertham: "We are getting to the roots of one of the contributing causes of juvenile delinquency. . . . You cannot understand present-day juvenile delinquency if you do not take into account the pathogenic and pathoplastic influence of the comic books." In plainer language: comic books not only inspire evil but suggest a form for the evil to take...
...built by Cecil Rhodes, and afterwards, the subject of Czechoslovakia's black Wednesday, which had just occurred, inevitably arose. Asked for his opinion, the Field Marshal spoke informally for about 15 minutes, and it gradually became clear to us that we were listening to an eloquent and illuminating account of the world situation today. Here are some excerpts from his remarks...
...soldier Dutra, the honest plodder who had faced one crisis after another in three uneasy years as president, gave a good account of himself. He had balanced the 1947 budget and had $25 million left over (he was $141 million in the red in 1946). Moreover, Brazil's inflation-one of the worst in South America-now seemed to have leveled...
...executive of a large manufacturing concern wrote in to say that the account of what Joe had done had made him feel fine...
...outlook was dim. Food shortages would reach a crisis point by May. Last week, strikes protesting food shortages flared briefly in Vienna factories. The Reds agitated to prolong the strikes, circulated an ominous rumor among the workers: "Watch your step. Austria's next, and you have to account for yourself when the Communists take over...