Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reciprocal tariff scheme. Under his chairmanship Industry can expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except in the case of France. Once, traveling in Europe, he was stopped at the French border and fined for trying to smuggle a box of cheap cigars. A Dry turned Wet, he expects to raise large sums from the legalization of liquor...
...book relates in non-scientific terms the adventures of these two expeditions to Southeastern Asia in 1928-29 on behalf of the Field Museum of Chicago. With the Coolidge party starting from China and the Roosevelt group from the Tibetan border, the original plan was to meet on the Mekong River, but the swift rapids in the Mckong and a lack of time prevented this meeting until the end of the expedition. One tragic incident marred the otherwise complete success of the trip. This was the death of R. W. Hendee from malaria when he was on his way from...
Northernmost point of New York State, snug against the Canadian border, is Rouse's Point, identified in Baedeker's guidebook as a U. S. "frontier-station," in the U. S. Government's mind as a famed port of entry for Canadian liquor. Its local press is the weekly North Countryman. Last week the North Countryman charged itself, along with the rest of the U. S. Press, with "selling the Depression to the people through millions of columns of free advertising in the guise of news." The North Countryman (circ. 2,000) promised to print not another line...
Cold ran the blood of a Finnish farmer one day in 1931. His 2-year-old child had been playing outside his cottage near the Russian border. Now the baby was gone. He and his friends searched far & wide, found no trace...
...sure, however, that I wholly favor the plan suggested in question eleven as an alternative to the present plan. There are students above the class of the border-line student who do profit by tutorial work and who engage in it with gratifying enthusiasm. But, in many instances, they do not wish to take the number of courses in one field now required for distinction--preferring rather to distribute their courses more liberally than the honors candidates. If a suggested revision of the tutorial plan were to prejudice their opportunity for tutorial work, I should be much disappointed. I favor...