Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ringing budget speech ranged far & wide over all phases of Soviet Union life in striking phrases. There are 33,000,000 pupils in Soviet elementary and secondary schools, he declared, and the proletarian State boasts of no less than 50,000,000 bondholders. Putting in figures with broad brush strokes, Commissar Zverev reported that: 1) the State's revenues would be 125,184,000,000 rubles (of which 83,000,000,000 rubles is to come from turnover taxes); 2) the State's expenditures would be 123,684,000,000 rubles (major items: 47,000,000,000 rubles...
...Ebro front, bald-domed General José Miaja, commander-in-chief on the southern Leftist front, pushed his forces through thinly-held Rightist lines in the Universales Mountains. He drove down the Guadalaviar River valley for six miles, to within nine miles of Albarracin, which commands a broad, unfortified plateau leading to Teruel, only 19 miles away...
State should be administered by the British under a revised mandate." Meanwhile, zealous Jews and Arabs continued for the sixth successive week their murder-bent activities. In cities, although British troops stood guard at virtually every street corner, bombs were hurled and snipers picked off their victims in broad daylight. The total toll of the terrorism during previous weeks: Arabs, 155 killed, 278 injured; Jews, 72 killed, 217 injured...
...lange of contradictions and bug-eyed naïvetés, made sense to nobody, will make sense only as weeks go by and a certain number of the high-priced creations, paraded last week, begin to appear, in copies, on millions of U. S. women. A few broad trends were seen, however, by practiced observers. At the end of the week unofficial tabulations revealed that the skirt, so far as length was concerned, was precisely where the summer left it - 13½ to 15½ in. from the ground. But full skirts, ranging from a gentle flare for daytime...
...Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian exile's hard-luck tales, for example, prompt him to bet on Lenin, short-sell Russian bonds at a huge profit...