Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many another sect denounced as heretical by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. But the heretic Waldensian Church, born of social and religious restlessness in the 12th Century, still exists as the world's oldest evangelical Christian body. It was founded by Peter Waldo, a rich Lyons merchant who vowed himself to poverty, defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible in 1179. Excommunicated along with numerous other heretics in 1184, he attracted a following who believed with him that it was wrong to take oaths or shed human blood, denied with him the Catholic doctrines...
...British rearmament McKay stated that it had been primarily directed against Germany, whose air force was the chief threat to their peace at the present time. The rehabilitation of the Imperial navy has been planned for the defense of the Mediterranean merchant ships which now carry 20 per cent of all British import goods...
...When the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 was approved by Congress last summer it established a U. S. Maritime Commission, empowered it to manage U. S. shipping and to investigate and report upon the shape of things to come. Fortnight ago, Commission Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy presented such a reckoning (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week he made another report, not on sea ships but on the relation of sea ships to airships. To many a landlubber the second report may seem like a Utopian dream, except that it also bears the earmarks of Joe Kennedy's hard-headed eagerness...
...Francisco or Seattle. In 1933, however, Director Allin was instrumental in obtaining four amendments to the Intercoastal Shipping Act, which put Stockton on par with other Pacific ports in freight charges, brought most of the intercoastal lines into Stockton. But, in spite ' of last year's Merchant Marine Act, few 'ocean carriers docked there. This is the point of the complaint to be decided next month, which will make or break Stockton...
Heine's placid father wanted him to be a comfortable merchant; his mother had more ambitious, vaguely social plans. As a result, the boy shuttlecocked from a Jewish cheder (rabbinical school) to a more aristocratic Jesuit Gymnasium, then back to a matter-of-fact business college, and finally to the University of Göttingen, where a wealthy uncle sent him to study law. He got his degree but never practiced. Instead, he hurried to Berlin, published there in 1822 a juvenile volume of poems, the Junge Leiden (Young Sorrows). "I got forty free copies." he wrote later...