Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President von Hindenburg was generally credited in despatches last week with having quelled the strife among German party leaders sufficiently to allow Acting Chancellor Luther to resume the chancellorship at the head of a tolerably workable minority Government...
With the exception of certain departments of laboratory sciences and the Engineering Schools, the entire College now comes under the tutorial plan. During past years the number of students concentrating in mathematical subjects has been sufficiently small to allow for a considerable degree of individual contact between the student and the instructor, but recently the department has grown to such an extent that the same amount of personal contact has not been possible. The plan will go into full effect with respect only to the present Freshman class next fall, and one class will be added during each...
...wont to attempt to immortalize themselves by founding societies and orders into which they can lure men of imperishable fame in other walks of life. The great Cardinal Richelieu, for example, practically forced Corneille and the famed clique of notables who frequented informally the house of Valentin Courart to allow themselves to be "incorporated" into L'Académie française, for the greater glory of "Cardinal, King, and Country." Last week Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, rapped out a few terse commands to his Cabinet, and lo, L'Accademia Italiana sprang into being...
This year an edition of 1000 has been printed with a large increase in advertising. This will allow the Register to pay for itself and possibly to make good part of last year's deficit...
...foreign prices remain below our cost of production, the only way farming can be made profitable is to sell no farm produce abroad. This means curtailed production for the time being. The unfortunate fact is that apparently the only way to curtail production is to make it unprofitable. Allow the farmer to make money on his produce by Government price fixing and he will naturally (unless some direct effort is made to prevent him) increase his production. This would only make the problem of the surplus worse and worse. This is the reason why Secretary Hoover has led the Administration...