Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter of days but observers held that of the 15 unconfirmed seats, five would go to the Government, the same number to the Cosgrave group, and the remaining four to Labor...
...News, is a gay and vigorous supporter of the New Deal. Nothing delights the Times more than baiting solemn Colonel McCormick's morbidly anti-New Deal Tribune, self-styled "The World's Greatest Newspaper." During the 1936 Presidential campaign, the Tribune each morning grimly tolled off the number of days remaining in which ''to save your country" at the polls. On election "day, the Times, only important Chicago daily supporting Roosevelt, impudently ridiculed the Tribune'?, predictions of doom with a gigantic front-page headline: 52 DAYS TO XMAS...
...National Exhibition is not a cross-section of the best contemporary U. S. painting. Selections are made by state committees picked by Governors. The number of pieces a State may exhibit is determined by its population rather than bv the number of good painters in it. New York has an additional rule that artists whose works have appeared in one National Exhibition are disqualified from later ones, thus excluding several like Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook, William Zorach...
...reflected into the photocell. The varying combinations cause correspondingly varying pulsations in the photocell. These pulsations actuate the appropriate mechanisms in the telegraph printer and in the linotype (or Intertype). Its inventor claims that the speed of the Semagraph is limited only by the speed of the linotype. The number of teletype printers that can receive Semagraph copy from one transmitter is unlimited. Semagraph copy can be sent in different type sizes and column widths...
Because the 16 stories in Southways show less of Erskine Caldwell's customary satanic humor and forthright sexual symbolism, and because a number of them have appeared in such cautious magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, some readers may conclude that Caldwell is mellowing into a merely successful writer. Examined more closely, they warrant another guess. More skilful, briefer than Caldwell's last collection, Kneel to the Rising Sun (1935), they suggest that Caldwell is feeling his way toward a less stylized, less repetitious, more complex kind of writing...