Word: keepeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatic Front. Still woefully weak in both man power and material, the Finns left nothing undone to get aid. To keep their U. S. reputation as good debtors (which privately they consider highly amusing) they paid the $234,693 installment on their loan. Tickled pink by the League of Nations' expulsion of Russia (see p. 75), the Finnish delegation to the League got busy drawing up a list of needed supplies. Heading this list must be airplanes and artillery, without which Finland cannot hope to win-especially if Coach Stalin sends his first team into the game. More...
...disapproving brothers, The Duchess of Malfi. swirls with the dark, cruel, guilty emotions of the Elizabethan theatre. Its splendid imaginativeness, its impassioned poetry, lift it above mere violence and gore. But it is horrifying rather than terrifying: there is so much bloodshed at the end it is impossible to keep stabs...
When Cukor "resigned," Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havillanc? charged into Selznick's office and in an emotional, sometimes tearful scene, pleaded with him to keep Cukor. Being smart women as well as capable actresses, they realized that the chances of getting another director with the same peculiar interest in women's roles were very slim. But they were fighting a lost cause...
...Suggested steps for getting a job: 1) buy a loose-leaf notebook; 2) keep a record of findings about yourself and possible careers; 3) prepare yourself for a particular career before you start hunting...
...inventories [because they are also used for plant expansion, payrolls, etc.], but they are an excellent gauge of the trend of inventories, for businessmen customarily borrow when they lay in larger supplies of raw materials, customarily pay off their loans when they let inventory run off. In order to keep purely financial transactions from unduly influencing the Index-which aims to reflect general business, not merely financial conditions-the turnover component for financial centres like New York and Chicago is kept separate from the turnover component for trade centres, and the two are later combined giving the turnover in trade...