Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Election deposits of ?150 each (forfeit if the candidate receives less than ^ of the votes in his division) were made by 1,286 candidates; by James Ramsay MacDonald in extraordinary fashion. Proffering three 20,000 mark pre-War German banknotes, the Prime Minister called out loudly: "Each of these notes was once worth a thousand pounds-one thousand pounds! Will you take them all as my deposit...
...increase and clarify that knowledge. The world now seems in ashes at our feet, and though a return to a civilization that flourished a thousand years ago is hardly a feasible antidote, it will be interesting to see what manner of men our ancestors were and in what fashion they were able to achieve a calm and order which appealed to one of the most able and sensitive minds of the nineteenth century...
...Medieval, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. All books in History, Literature, Philosophy, and so forth which, by virtue of a historical rather than theoretical treatment of a subject of by virtue of date of origin, are associated primarily with a period in history are arranged in this fashion. The object of the plan is to enable the student in one field to visualize all the aspects of the period he is studying...
...therefore with gratitude and pleasure that the Vagabond directs his followers, like Moses, out of the wilderness of scholastic Harvard to the Large Lecture Room in Fogg at 12 today. There Professor Lake will read the Bible as it should be read, and he will interpret it in such fashion that his listeners will wish that his words, like Job's, might be graven in stone...
...FARTHING Lousana, Alberta The U. S. levies tariffs on: 1) books and periodicals printed abroad by lithographic process (fashion periodicals, 8? per lb.); 2) books less than 20 years old in English by foreign authors (15%) or by U. S. authors (25%); 3) children's books (15%), "toy" books (70%). But bibles, books for public libraries or in foreign languages are duty free, no important foreign periodicals are affected...