Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler and Benito Mussolini that no colonial handout was in the immediate offing, but did not completely slam the door to future bargaining. The resolution read that "no change in the status of colonies, protectorates or mandated territories could at any time be considered which did not take full account of the interests and wishes of the inhabitants." The vote was 253 for, 127 against, the opposition Laborites voting "no" only because the resolution wasn't strong enough for them. Said Colonial and Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald: "The peoples of the colonies are not merely content...
Chapter 6. At week's end Mr. Bennett got a court order tying up a $100,000 brokerage account of Dr. Coster's wife, Carol, on the ground that "she is in all probability in possession of funds which . . . may be ... derived from . . . fraudulent practices." That seemed to point to a possible answer to one question in the mystery: what happened to the money? Other questions remained unanswered. What the crude drug department's real business was, nobody knew. Whether there were any real warehouses where drugs or liquor might be cached, nobody knew. How long...
...feel no common interest and are suspicious and ignorant of each other." The base of this feeling is the contrast between the mass of low-paid industrial labor in Cambridge and the wealthy and irresponsible student body This fact has not been stressed before, and certainly no account of the relations between town and gown can ignore it. But there is a long gap between the existence of such disparities of wealth and the present tenseness between the two groups. The Progressive tries to make clear this causal relation by stating that as a result of their status "a large...
...years: could the sauropod walk out of water? It is fairly well established that the sauropods, big vegetarian dinosaurs weighing up to 40 tons, were dependent for their existence on bodies of water in which grew vast quantities of water plants. Some fossil men have also supposed that, on account of their great weight, the monsters had to stay in the water all the time for its buoying effect-that on dry land their legs would buckle. Others disagreed...
...made elaborate preparations for his departure, selling his trumpet, books, blankets, and other personal possessions, but leaving a spread over his bare bed. He had also drawn out considerable money from his checking account...