Word: adventism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry 40 or 50, up to one-ton monsters. As Britain mobilized an even greater trawler fleet and called for hundreds of volunteers from North Sea fishing ports, down went one ship after another, great and small, trawler and liner, nationality regardless. The 11,930-ton Japanese luxury steamer Terukuni Maru went...
Forced to import some 70,000,000 hides (15% of its cattle hides, 25% of its calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only 12% above their Depression I low, are fully 30% under 1929. That, say U. S. shoemakers, is giving the U. S. pedestrian a lot of shoe for his money. To the shoe industry, that also means a lot of business for its prices: 1936 and 1937 sales topped...
...education, a trend in which the Grant Study is the latest example. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the Board of Freshman Advisers are all part of this trend. But these examples are attempts to adapt the individual more nearly to the requirements of a Harvard education. With the advent of the Grant Study, a conscious attempt is being made for the first time in its history to adapt Harvard education to the undergraduate...
...more under charter and Government allotment. At war's end it sold the Moormack for $400,000, later snapped up the Government's offer to take its huge merchant marine off its hands at dirt cheap prices of $10 to $15 a deadweight ton. The advent of World War II found Moore-McCormack big and respectable (capital: $5,000,000), in hock to the Government and worried over what to do with the surplus ships that the provisions of the Neutrality Bill may take out of service. Last week it found an answer...
...fuel under pressure drives a jet of gas particles to the rear, and the recoil sends the rockets ahead. Rockets were used as war missiles in the early 19th Century. They had ranges up to two miles, better than the artillery of that day, were discarded only with the advent of breech-loading guns with longer ranges and rifled barrels...