Word: discoverable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Treasury Department struck a final balance of its books for the fiscal year 1930, was gratified to discover it had a surplus of receipts over expenditures of $184,000,000.
With the end of the season (July 31) fast nearing, cotton experts last week were busy examining facts & figures, trying to discover the niche which the year 1930 would take between the high of 1920 (average weekly price at New Orleans of spot cotton per Ib.: 33.05?) and the low...
Michael Faraday set to work in the field of electricity not as a dilettante but as a common laborer. He had to discover almost everything that he wanted to know. Of his greatest discovery, which ultimately resulted in the electric generator, he wrote: ". . . had an iron ring made. . . . Wound it...
No humorless, cranky old maid was Emily Dickinson. Hers was feminine intelligence at its keenest, and many a masculine ponderosity drew her inner smile. Said she: "I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears." Unable to discover the Devil, she concluded: "He must be...
If one has any fault to find with Mr. Shanks it is in his use of "the defective method" so popular now with teachers of literature. At times it seems that he is a little too anxious to discover just what particular poems were influenced by a particular does of...