Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Completed last week was the White House swimming pool, built by popular subscriptions of $15,000. Tiled in colors, 50 by 15 ft., it stands in the west wing connecting the executive offices with the main building. In accepting it, President Roosevelt revealed that he had once tried to build a similar pool but it caved in. He took a 30-min. swim before dinner - his first exercise since entering the White House...
...Securities Act can be considered in two main parts: 1) Issuing new stocks and bonds; 2) buying & selling stocks and bonds already issued...
...main dramatic element in the film centers around a playlet which the students give. Manuela has been touched by the friendly sympathy of Fraulein von Bernburg, and after her successful performance, excited by too much strong punch, she makes a scene by shouting her gratitude and love for the teacher. Unfortunately the principal overhears the speech and Manuela is sentenced to solitary confinement. A narrowly avoided suicide brings the story to a happy conclusion...
...room which is approximately 100 by 30 feet, adjoins the main hall of Memorial Hall, and was formerly used as a serving room in the days when Memorial Hall was used as the College Commons. Alterations in the room will be made during the Summer so that it will be ready for use by students in Naval Science I next autumn. The room will be equipped with chart tables for use in instruction in Navigation...
There is not much plot to most men's lives, and the ending is invariably "un-happy." But few novelists attempt a complete picture of even one individual career. Since the main outline is universally identical, writers do not concern themselves so much with total similarities as with partial differences. Author Fallada's case-history is of a young German couple whose developing plight is echoed everywhere today throughout the western world; but his Teutonic tones give the well-known story a kind of foreign freshness...