Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing that the Government will spend a total of $4,315,500,000 in 1937, $324,755,000 more than last year-most of it on warplanes,ships and guns-Mr. Chamberlain let fly two hammer blows: 1) Britons' basic tax on net incomes will be raised to live shillings in the pound (25%). A Briton with a wife and child who earns $5,000 a year would pay, after benefiting from various exemptions, $585 to the Exchequer, more than seven times as much as a U. S. citizen in the same position pays to Washington. 2) An excess...
...native of New York, Miss Niesen is going west to live, accompanied by her. Great Dane, two cats, numerous puppies, and a South American Ringtailed Spider Monkey. Those who heard Miss Niesen's radio interview last Wednesday are already acquainted with the last mentioned member of her travelling menagerie; the monkey stole the show...
...first day a membership drive for the Court will be held, in an effort to build its membership up to proper levels. The methods used by modern armies of increasing enlistment will be used, with inducements to live in Washington and the beauties of District of Columbia womanhood being emphasized...
Crossing between races that are physical far apart involves serious social results. Since one race is dominant, society forbids legal unions. Thus, the offspring, besides being unique in look, are socially stigmatized; at best they must live with the inferior group. In America mulattoes have increased rapidly, so that now only one-fourth of the Negro population is full-blooded. To discourage marriages between Negroes and Whites a pseudo-scientific propaganda has appeared which underlines the supposed bad effects of crossing. But scientists doubt if mulattoes are inferior; among Indians they have found that mixed bloods show less sterility...
...wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility for the storm, and a farm movement led by the girl he has jilted. He is shot by a dispossessed farmer,--but not killed; he repents, and will, of course, live happily ever after, with the girl...