Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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2) Skilled workers, having earned their Federal money in a few hours, could secretly work and earn elsewhere during the month (at any wage levels they chose). This aroused jealousy, criticism.
During the past six years of the neutrality seesaw, three schools have fought to control U. S. peace policy: 1) the "sanctionist" school, led by former Secretary of State Stimson, aims to keep the U. S. out of war by penalizing aggressor nations which start wars-depriving them, but not...
>Chinese civil leaders issued long, hopeful reports on numerous phases of Chinese national activity. Just concluded in Chungking was a conference of all military bigwigs. Despite the loss during the last year of almost every coastal port, the Chinese retreat from the middle Yangtze Valley and the near exhaustion of...
*Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, during a brief excursion into entomology many years ago, discovered that the hotter an ant was, the faster it ran-in fact, that you could tell the temperature of an ant by its rate of movement.
In the church door, a red biretta on his close-cropped head, an old black overcoat covering his scarlet-piped soutane, appeared hollow-eyed Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. As he raised his arms in bewildered alarm, the mob let go a volley of eggs and potatoes. A schoolteacher...