Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose of his operation is to prevent this "reverse action" of the sympathetic system, and short-circuit erratic nerve impulses rushing to the heart. After exhaustive study, and drafting of innumerable blueprints, he decided to cut through the third, fourth and fifth ribs close to the spinal column, snip free...
-Except by comparison with other industries the utilities have no reason to be cocky about a 20% sales growth since 1929. Between 1922 and 1929 they grew 100%.
From April, 1933, until last week, the Japanese yen was nailed to the prestigious British pound at the rate of one shilling twopence per yen though Japan's purchases from Britain were small potatoes and the U. S. far & away her best provider. When Europe's war sent...
During one of those shortages of cash that seem to be chronic in the planned economy, Moscow sends Comrades Bul-janoff, Iranoff and Kopalski to Paris to sell confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes...
Soon it appears that what was intended as an absolutely honest autobiography has turned into a fearlessly candid biography of his wife. A social worker, lecturer and minor fiction writer, Edith was not (as Daudet said the wife of a writer should be) a feather bed. Petite, restless, intense, she...