Word: fored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maine lobstermen say other U. S. lobsters are inferior to theirs. Maine lobsters are sturdy, cannibalistic, pugnacious. They will stand on their hind claws, lift their fore claws and strike out like boxers. They molt three or four times a year. After a young lobster has cast its shell it turns around and eats it. After some 23 molts the shell is tough, the lobster considers himself a man and goes off in search of a batch of eggs to fertilize. In the winter lobsters live in mud at the bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore...
...Japan came to the fore in silk. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, Japanese silk deliveries were stopped for two months. But Gerli & Co. arranged to ship silk from Kobe almost immediately and this was the real opening of a silk market outside of Yokohama. Emanuel Gerli is 73. Active spokesman for the firm in his nephew, Paolino Gerli, 41, a vice president. He came to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, later went to Japan where he dealt in silk for his own account from 1919 to 1921. In 1922 he joined E. Gerli & Co. Although the firm...
...advanced immeasurably. Said she last week: "This generation, for the first time in the history of the world, has a pay envelope." This will produce a new morality, "sought for itself, for decency, for good taste, in a new spirit of self-restraint, which is coming to the fore among our young people...
...housing plans at Harvard and Yale have brought to the fore the problem of the social adjustment of the freshman to his college environment. Difficulty of transition from a preparatory school dormitory to the new college units may become greater as the Houses develop characteristics peculiar to themselves. At Harvard the method of inducting freshmen into the plan has been selected as much in accordance with the exigencies of building as with the considered needs of first year men. Exeter, by initiating a new system of housing, has made the necessary adjustment; other preparatory schools should make similar provisions. Revision...
...battle back to Prosperity, pugnacious Benito Mussolini was again last week to the fore...