Word: handsful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the still incomplete information in the hands of the Dean's Office in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of the 36 holders of foreign Fellowships in that School, five are believed to be still in Europe.
General Johnson had declared a truce on verbal bombing for the duration of hostilities: "I am going to be ... careful ... to abstain from too many joyous wisecracks and in my small way hold up the hands of every person in public life who is trying ... to keep us out of...
Meanwhile, speculation and the illusion of prosperity may itself encourage an increase of consumption, giving business a genuine stimulus. And although Congress last summer rejected the idea of Capital Goods spending, the crisis had put into Franklin Roosevelt's hands the means of carrying it out in the name...
After a second day of this run on commodities retailers rubbed their hands. By close of business on the third day, they did not think it was fun. They roared orders at wholesalers for more sugar, flour, canned goods. Wholesalers, caught flat-footed by the rush of business, found themselves...
> STALIN-Boris Souvarine-Alliance ($3.75). The ironies of history with which this book deals are even exemplified in its publication. Five years ago, even one year ago, English and U. S. readers would have found it more profitable if less pat. Souvarine's Stalin, published first in French several...