Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nevada, which estimates the business brought in by its six-weeks-residence divorce law at a modest $5,000,000 per year, vigilant legislators laid away a 28-day law which they had prepared for instant passage in case Montana's legislation became...
Wassily W. Leontief, assistant professor of Economics and Dr. Machlup of Tufts then brought the wage increase problem to the fore and questioned the ease with which taxes could support the increased interest rates...
...inculcation of a habit of self-education in students, toward the provision of a "key to future education" which would make learning a life-long process. Second is its subject matter. This is American history in the broadest sense--cultural, scientific, and economic as well as political history, all brought into a unified and correlated whole. Third is its position in the field of education. The Plan seeks to bridge a number of academic departments, to break down the water-tight bulwarks separating the independent and specialized compartments into which the modern academic world has divided itself...
Robert Hallowell was not a great artist, but he was a natural one. He did vivid, honest water colors and first-rate portraits, including one of Revolutionist John Reed, which now hangs in Harvard's Adams House. Brought up a Quaker, he put his idea of art in three words: "Isolate thy beauty." Widemouthed, humorous, stubborn and good company, he earned praise, honor from museums and meagre keep for his second wife and their baby until Depression hit the art market. From 1935 to 1937 he was an assistant on the Federal Art Project. After that obscurity and poverty...
Time was when such an event would have brought cursing crowds banging at the doors of the bank's red brick building, when local payrolls would have stopped, local taxes gone unpaid, a resounding local depression started. But after the 1933 Bank Holiday, the New Deal set up Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Since then banks have paid .08¼% of their average daily deposits to FDIC, thus insuring all deposits of $5,000 or less...