Word: paring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) ; and shortly afterward Curtis announced a general 10% advertising rate reduction. Gloomy Chicago was cheered by the announcement that the three big Insull companies will only reduce, not omit, their dividends at the next meetings. Commonwealth Edison and Peoples Gas will pare their rates from $8 annually to $5, while Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois will cut to $3. For the year to June 1 the dividends casualty list has included 422 omissions, 506 reductions...
...Passed the tax bill (see col. 3) ¶ Passed (306-10-47) a bill by South Carolina's Pare granting independence to the Philippines in eight years; sent it to the Senate...
...exhibition of these pictures is sensational. But sensational not only for its novelty, but because the "Surrealistes" often deliberately purpose to shock and surprise, so that you may be deprived of all preconceived standards open to new impressions. They intend to shock, as the safe-breaker might pare the skin off his finger-tips, so that his supersensitized bared flesh might the better feel the fumblers fall; to shock as the bull-fighter first uncovers the nerves of his audience by the wilful and barbaric shedding of blood and disemboweling of defenseless horses, so that the supersensitized public might...
With proper gratitude the French Government last week recognized the legal status of the Lafayette Escadrille Foundation. The most beautiful War memorial in France, a white marble temple in the Pare de Villeneuve-l'Etang where lie the bodies of 67 U. S. aviators who died for France before General John Joseph Pershing arrived with his A. E. F., will now be cared for in perpetuity...
...Jane, a modernist, introduced into his performance such persons as Charlie Chaplin and Bicot, the French cinema comedian. MM. les Sénateurs and their children would have none of him. Puppeteer Désarthis, an entrepreneur who had already had many a successful season farther south in the Pare de Montsouris, triumphed...