Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shorten the inch by .00005 millimetres. Since the U. S. inch is denned as 25.40005 millimetres and the British inch is defined as 25.39996 millimetres, the object is to establish uniformity by meeting the British halfway: that is, by making the inch an even 25.4 millimetres which would also key it in with the metric system...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt's Phi Beta Kappa key is an honorary award...
...Have and Have Not-Ernest Hemingway, is a story of (1 the Spanish Civil War, 2 the career of a Key West, Florida, character named Harry Morgan, 3 the Italian retreat from Caporetto, 4 the rise of the Communist party in this country under Earl Browder, 5 a fictional Hollywood character whose career closely resembles that of Sam Goldwyn...
...KEY TO CORRECT ANSWERS The numerals printed in italics below are the correct answers to the 105 questions in the current affairs test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract the number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score...
...midst of a Senate squabble on the Housing Bill, Nevada's spare Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, rose to answer the charge made day before by California's Hiram Johnson, a fellow committeeman, that the U. S. "had no foreign policy." Mr. Johnson advanced the theory that the State Department's protestations of peace were at odds with the President's threat of "quarantining" aggressor nations. In his Chief's defense, Senator Pittman declared: "When the President of the U. S. first entered office he announced what I consider the fundamental foreign...