Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sugar has been overwhelmed by more than a decade of overproduction. In 1926 Cuba tried a single-handed experiment in limitation, but as she cut her production, rival nations expanded theirs. Cuba then sponsored the plan of Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne whereby all sugar-producing nations adopted export quotas...
Japan's Navy Minister, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, was called on the carpet before his Emperor to explain the Panay bombing and, as senior Japanese naval officer responsible under the commander in chief on the Nanking front, Rear Admiral Teizo Mitsunami, 48, was recalled to Japan in disgrace. From staff...
Other animated cartoons have heroes as bold as the Prince, as resourceful as Mickey or the sensible little pig. Other animated cartoons present portents cataclysmic as the Wolf's house-flattening puffing, physical violence as severe as the heroic bartering Donald Duck undergoes in Modern Inventions. But whereas Popeye...
With a specific favor usually in mind, novena-makers at Our Lady of Sorrows write their petitions on blanks handed them before their novena begins. Favorite petitions are for good health, for employment, for souls in purgatory, but many a petitioner is interested in matters like the health of the...
Native music in out-of-the-way parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court musicians (even by U. S. Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes...