Word: consists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibits will consist largely of the graphic and decorative art in general, including ceramics, textiles, glassware, modern house fixtures, and small pieces of sculpture and furniture. There will also be paintings, drawings, and prints, representing types of contemporary work in those media...
...final ounce of boldness probably came, last fortnight, when the Dictator closed and bade farewell to the last democratically elected parliament of Italy. When the new Chamber meets, next Spring, it will consist entirely of Deputies hand picked by the Fascist Grand Council. There will be no Opposition. In the words of Il Capo to the departing deputies...
...last and continuing Brazilian boom crop is coffee. Some 15,000,000 132-lb. bags are exported yearly, over 7,000,000 to the U. S., and a mere 20,000 to the tea-addicted British Isles. Seventy per cent of Brazilian exports consist of coffee. So long as the bean is crushed and drunk, the ideal-for-coffee-growing southern states of Brazil will remain rich-if overproduction is avoided. During the overproduction crisis of 1906 the Government of Brazil bought and held 8,500,000 bags of coffee, lest the market be gutted. Unlike most such desperate measures...
Professor Copeland's program will consist of "Desire," a sketch by James Stephens, and selections from the works of Robert Browning. Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley...
Long-planned, muchdiscussed, the code was adopted at the ninth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in Chicago. Much of it might seem to consist of regulations which have become standard practices in most industries. It should be remembered, however, that the oil industry today suffers from overproduction, with its attendant fierceness of competition among more than 3,000 established oil companies. There are in this country about 320,000 oil wells with a potential daily production of about 3,000,000 barrels of oil. During 1926 the average daily domestic demand for crude oil was slightly over...