Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards War Debts, will the French Government pay the Dec. 15 installment and will she pay the June 15 installment...
...learned how to faint, & have inheirited a fortune. Have been through a long illness & had a terrible sorrow! And I might have been married if I had choosen . . . I have never sworn eternal friendship to anyone, nor written poetry since I was eleven years old." On her 17th birthday (Dec. 28, 1870), Julia Newberry thus cast up her accounts. This two-year diary of a last-century Chicago socialite is less kittenish and platitudinous than most of its kind, may seem surprisingly lively to modern readers who put family albums on a level with comic strips. It will...
...Common law" marriages are of primary interest to the States as they affect property inheritances. Last week's law had one of its roots in the famed Erlanger-Fixel case (TIME. Dec. 28. 1931). Early in 1930 Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, wealthy theatre man, died, bequeathing to his brother and sisters an estate estimated at $75,000,000.* In 1912 he had been divorced, forbidden to remarry in New York State. At his death appeared a buxom ex-chorus girl named Charlotte Pixel who. as "Mrs. Erlanger," contested the will. The trial lasted for twelve weeks before Surrogate John Patrick...
...Most indexes are adjusted to season variations. Typical is power production which must be adjusted to iron out the rise in winter (when days are short), the decline in summer. Annual peak is usually a cloudy day in the week of Dec. 22. shortest day of the year. Bottom is not around June 21, longest day. but always July 4. most observed U. S. holiday...
...principal town, where Author Marshall had a cabin and spent most of his time, has 48 houses. Marshall took plenty of stiff reading with him. expecting to have time on his hands. but found Wiseman so sociable he seldom had time to read. Thirty-one days in Winter (Dec. 7-Jan. 6) Wiseman never sees the sun, but the winter Marshall spent there was unusually mild: the thermometer's lowest was 50° below. Wiseman is a gold-mining town that has long passed its boom dividends. In 1916 its richest claims were exhausted, high Wartime wages "Outside...