Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waifs, called fachooks, were commonly placed in peasant homes in wild regions. As long as funds were regularly provided for their upkeep they were kept alive, but if the money ran out they were done away with by any of several traditional means-they were left in cold air alter a very hot bath, were fed heavily after being starved for days, or were nourished on a mixture of milk and gypsum which 'created a plaster coating on their digestive tracts. Lack of inquiry into the causes of infant mortality stimulated what Author Adamic calls a "horrid industry...
...Brown's sons Barry and Sevellon III. Pathfinder's youthful new staff proposed to lop off "deadwood" in its 1,129,481 circulation, oust questionable advertising. Editorially they promised more photographs, breezier copy, brighter gags. Two things about Pathfinder that Republican Publisher Brown did not plan to alter were its $1 subscription rate and its stand-pat Republicanism...
Researches by Dr. Walter H. Eddy of Columbia's Teacher's College have indicated that freezing and thawing do not alter the content of vitamins, solids, fats, carbohydrates or proteins in mother's milk...
...knows precisely what he is getting. In most standard lines the product is manufactured to specifications laid down by the cooperators. This is one reason why co-operative buying has be come rooted so firmly among U. S. farm ers, who well know that fancy brand names do not alter the tested formulas for fertilizer or laying mash. One-eighth of all U. S. farm supplies are now sold through coops, the volume having doubled from...
...fibre by Opposition Leader Clement Attlee with savage, terrier-like insistence. After first saying that Benito Mussolini reminded him of "Scarface" Al Capone, Major Attlee shouted at the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "If Neville Chamberlain, instead of being mayor of Birmingham, had been mayor of Chicago, he would have altered the functions of the police to accommodate Al Capone!" According to Major Attlee, the new project of Chancellor Chamberlain to alter the functions of the League of Nations to accommodate Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 22) is even more dastardly...