Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head off this Congressional drive on his economy program, President Roosevelt adroitly went a fraction of the way to meet the Veterans' demands. He announced that to "correct inequalities" he had by executive order restored certain of his pension cuts: an increase from $90 to $100 a month in pensions for total, service-connected disabilities; liberalization of hospital privileges for all sick veterans; an increase of burial allowances for dead veterans from $75 to $100. Cost of the changes: $21,000,000 a year, cheap if it serves to smother the Reed bill...
...Soviet Russia.* But despite his militancy War Minister Hayashi is rated more cosmopolitan than General Araki. Several times he has represented Japan in Geneva, gained a broader world view. On taking office he had nothing to say to correspondents, beyond admitting that the Japanese Who's Who is correct in listing his recreation as "the collecting of swords...
...your own knowledge know how nearly your watch show's correct time at this moment...
...elements, they could be dismissed as simply an excited reaction to corruption in high places. There is, however, reason to believe that the dissatisfaction in more than superficial, that, in fact, it shows a collapse of the French belief in parliamentarians and in the Republic. If this view is correct, then the present crisis is more than just a passing storm and may well mark the beginning of the end of representative government in France; if it is to be saved, what France needs is a man of the character of Clemenceau or Waldeck-Rousseau; but no such giant...
...which contain three or four cards of like suit. If the deal is made from this unshuffled pack, each player will get one card from each trick, and the result will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds of hands dealt after one, two, three and four shuffles, Mr. Woodruff shows that it takes at least four good shuffles to produce the proper quota of uneven distribution. With the help of an M. I. T. colleague, he has invented a machine controlled...