Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schacht had a fine offer in his briefcase, but Premier van Zeeland, pleasantly aglow after his thumping electoral victory last fortnight over Belgium's No. 1 Fascist, Léon Degrelle (TIME, April 19), was in no mood to give anything away to the Fascists from across the Rhine. Germany is starving for raw materials; the Belgian Congo is one of the richest properties in Africa. Dr. Schacht's scheme was that Germany should buy $84,250,000 worth of Congo copper, tin and oil, pay for it within a specified time with thermometers, automobiles, safety razors, cameras...
...Croydon, England police court imposed in absentia a $5 fine for speeding upon Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, who cabled from the U. S. expressing "extreme regret at the unintentional offense...
WASHINGTON : CITY AND CAPITAL-Federal Writers' Project-U. S. Government Printing Office ($3). Handsome, hefty (5 lb. 9 oz.), 400,000-word guide book, with fine maps and photographs, in which the Federal Writers' Project turns the Capital's history, buildings and scenery inside out. The second (1st: Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture) in a projected 48-State series...
...Fine Fielding...
...Freshman's program, rather than any change in the course as it stands. For many Freshmen, coming out of the New England schools where English is taught as more than just a means of talking to one's neighbor in study hall and is treated as one of the fine arts, are already acquainted with much of the material with which English 1 deals. It would be more profitable for these men to dig right into the field in one of the period courses, rather than let their interest cool in reshuffling old cards. Those who would then be left...