Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading Wilamina Morrow's letter in TIME, April 22, p. 9, I am at a loss to understand the reference to Miss Perkins, as a devoted wife and a successful mother. Will you please explain such a reference...
...lines were generally sharper than age lines. For loss of the left arm, young women wanted $1,000,000, young men $1,000,000,000. Men said they would be willing to fall into a trance during the month of October every year for $2,000,000 or become insane every July for $95,000,000. Women wanted $200,000 for an October trance, $4,500,000 for July madness. For $10,000,000 each, men would spend their lives in a Manhattan apartment. Women wanted $62,500,000. To abandon all hope of life after death the men wanted...
Brooks' crew did the course in 7-18 when they beat Lowell in the trials on May 2. Kirkland's eight, although cripled by the loss of two regulars, did the same course in 7-27 to beat Winthrop by two feet. Adams, Dunster, and Eliot were eliminated as a result of these preliminary races, and of the four crews racing today, Brooks rules as the favorite, with Kirkland pressing closely...
...Board of Trade Clearing House selected a group of independent brokers (whose names were kept secret) to close out the Rosenbaum open contracts privately. Within a half hour after the market opened. President Boylan proudly announced that the job had been done. The liquidation was accomplished with a net loss for the day of only 1? in the price of wheat...
...Hatter in a very superior tone, "is because your knowledge of logic isn't complete. You know that by induction you get a general conclusion from many particulars, and by deduction a single proposition comes from two conclusions: well, by another special from of logic we get a civilization loss of some 50,000,000 able-bodied citizens and we conclude the world is safe for democracy. That form of logic, my dear child, is reduction. And it's quite the vogue today...