Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1.Shell cheap " Travel Dollars" to forign tourists. 2. Barter American manufactures for Brazilian coffee. 3. Dispose of surplus cotton by dumping it abroad. 4. Institute a "Commodity Dollar." 5. Increase tax rates against corporations refusing to cooperate in the social security program...
Congratulations upon a difficult job performed with a modicum of success. You have managed to introduce a cheap and flippant note even in your account of persons most sacred to Canadians: your story of the Royal Visit to Canada...
Italianate Englishman Max ("The Inimitable Max") Beerbohm, 61, lighter-than-air essayist who wrote his last book, Around Theatres, in 1930, was among those elevated to a knighthood on King George's birthday honors list. Forgiven, if not forgotten was his 40-year-old gibe: "Knighthood is a cheap commodity these days. It is modern Royalty's substitute for largesse and it is scattered broadcast. Though all would sneer at it, there are few whose hands would not gladly grasp the dingy patent...
Learning of Sullivan's statement last night, David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy, and one of the Faculty sponsors of the production, defended "The Cradle Will Rock" as having "the purity of actual brilliance compared with ordinary burlesque shows and cheap movies...
...25th reunion, when Princeton gave him its first degree of Doctor of Philanthropy.) Sam Higginbottom began Allahabad College under a tree, taught husbandry, erosion control which he himself learned as he went along. To replace the sticks with which India's farmers scratched the soil, he produced a cheap, deep-cutting plow, still called the "Wah-wah plow" from the exclamations of surprise it causes. In spite of Hindu religious prejudices, Sam Higginbottom put sacred cows on a paying basis, encouraging farmers to put them on forage grass instead of feeding them from their meagre stocks of provisions...