Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Treasury announced that its deficit had risen to the unprecedented peacetime figure of $878,971,129, indicated that it would break through the billion dollar mark before the end of the fiscal year (June 30). President Hoover was thoroughly alarmed...
Forced by the wakes of the launches to call a halt at the three-quarter mile mark, the second featherweight shell was led over the finish-line by the 1933 craft with a margin of half a length. Both crews had suffered considerably from the rough water. The lighter boat, rowing in the outer lane, was restricted to a beat of 31, in which it seemed to do its best spacing...
...most convenient mark of distinction yet conceived is the adoption of colored glasses, which were originally used by women in the divorce colony to baffle camera men, according to dispatches, but have now become a recognized means of distinguishing the sheep from the wolves. Strangely enough or usually enough in such circumstances both parties are happy with the contrivance. The sheep are allowed immediately to enter the most reputable speakeasies to be fleeced, while the wolves can now simply separate their prey from the common herd...
...expenditure for the next fiscal year; $315,799,083 saving to avert a tax increase. The President explained that this year's heavy expenditures were due to emergency outlays for Drought, veterans, Unemployment, Farm Relief. Meanwhile the 1931 deficit passed the $800,000,000 mark...
...second, but was passed by a Penn runner near the end. The Crimson held third place until the last leg, when Dodge nipped the Buckeye anchor man to finish second with the remarkable time of 48 4-5 seconds for his quarter. Penn's quartet equalled the 1915 mark...