Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economics was the field chosen for specialization by a majority of the applicants, numbering 98, closely followed by Government with 96. Next in order are History, with 43; English, 36; Sociology, 13; and Science and Music, with 5 each. The subjects of psychology, fine arts, law, drama, philosophy, philology, and business management were also on the applications...
What the Austrian Chancellor did last week to merit this accusation was to order what every leader of the German people has wanted ever since the World War: a nationwide Austrian plebiscite on the issue of whether Austria should unite with Germany...
...America. Dissatisfied with Douglas' progress and convinced by Tomlinson's tests that upper-air flight was feasible, T. W. A. became sold on Boeing's idea of a big passenger fuselage for the well-tested wings and tail of the Air Corps' B-17 bomber, ordered six. Its weight, too, would be just within the "Big Five" agreement-42,672 lb. When this order became known T. W. A.'s competitors howled that the "spirit" of the agreement had been broken...
When the yacht Velero III, which by express order of its owner is referred to as a cruiser, never as a yacht, tied up in San Diego Harbor one day last week, there disembarked an eccentric man, and after him some of the earth's most eccentric animals. The man was Captain George Allan Hancock, multimillionaire California oil and real-estate operator, musician, aviator, scientist, explorer...
...STORY or RECONSTRUCTION-Robert Selph Henry - Bobbs-Merrill ($5). Monumental, 633-page sequel to Author Henry's monumental Story of the Confederacy, restoring life and order to the drabbest, most fiercely confused period in U. S. history...