Word: giving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Fractions: Fenn Reapportionment will work as follows: The 1930 population will be divided by 435 (number of representatives) giving average population for each congressional district. Each state is granted one representative, in accordance with the Constitution. The average district population for the country is divided into the population of each state, giving the number of whole districts for each state. Then the 387 seats remaining after each state has been allotted one seat are distributed according to these whole districts. After the population of the state is divided by the average district population, there will be a remainder which...
...Nearly 45 per cent of the females now practicing prostitution in Moscow came from the provinces to work as servants. When such peasant girls lose their positions and are unable to find others, they seem afraid to return home, or unwilling to give up city life, and therefore they prostitute themselves...
...Every Italian woman must give to her country at least one son every two years. A refusal on this point will be equivalent to pushing men on the road to polygamy ?which, however, is contrary to Fascist moral principles...
...Mayor James J. Walker, of Manhattan, was presented a bat by certain denizens of the Panama Canal Zone with the request that he give the bat to famed baseball player Babe Ruth. The bat, made out of a lignum-vitae railroad tie, was four ounces over weight. Babe Ruth last week in a Manhattan gymnasium boxed famed musician Paul Whiteman...
Tastes change so rapidly that "hits" come and go within a week. College buyers are always ahead of the market, and prove fickle in the extreme. Eccentricity makes a forecast of musical sales impossible, as frequently the students fall to accept songs rated as certain favorites. Sometimes they give vogue to a record by their patronage...