Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five or ten weeks while the B's study on the campus. Then the groups swap places. Because study time is thus interrupted, the course lasts six years, though bright students may finish in five. Antioch was the first Liberal Arts college to adopt this co-operative plan, previously employed in the University of Cincinnati Engineering School...
Competition in the divorce market has led Nevada to adopt the most distinctive measures. All records have fallen by the wayside under the new rulings, in effect yesterday morning, by which divorce may be secured in six weeks and fourteen minutes, easily half the time of the closest rival. Efficiency supreme, with magistrates rising at 6 o'clock to prepare for the day's actions, and gambling extreme, by the newest laws, have brought all the sheep into the fold, while wolves of one sort or another have gathered for the killing...
...embarrassing political questions which he suggested the Progressives answer. He asked, among other things: Should the 18th Amendment be repealed? Should the Government undertake the ownership and operation of railways? Should the Constitution be amended to deprive the President of veto power? Should the country adopt the dole system...
Question: Should the country adopt the dole system...
Founder of Beneficial was the late Clarence Hodson who supported the Russell Sage Foundation in writing and getting 25 States to adopt the general form of the Uniform Small Loan Law to govern the operations of personal finance companies. Mr. Hodson opened a loan shop in Newark, N. J., just before that State passed the Small Loan Act in 1914. He immediately started expanding his operations. In 1929 the present Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. was formed by a big merger. It now has 318 offices in 200 cities and communities. Last year it loaned...