Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelfth of what would be his yearly salary in the naval rank which he has been certified as fit to hold in time of war. Thus a merchant officer who would be made a Lieutenant Commander in war-time will receive $250 per year during his whole reservist period, and, in addition, regulation pay during periods devoted exclusively to "training duty...
...discovery, in a coal mine on the windswept mountain slopes near Billings, Mont., of a fossil molar tooth of human appearance, mixed in with fossil clams and lizards known to belong in the Eocene period, 50 to 60 million years ago, caused a great deal of newspaper talk last autumn. But experts were inclined to view the molar as that of euprotogonia, doglike Eocene quadruped with manlike teeth in its bearlike-horselike head...
...their defense committee had seemingly lost faith in Governor Fuller and his advisory committee. The most striking evidence of their pessimism had been the continuation of their hunger strike. Mr. Sacco had been on his hunger strike since July 17; Mr. Vanzetti had been virtually fasting for the same period, though he at least drank coffee during the first few days of the strike, at one time ate a full meal, and last week brought his hunger strike to a definite end. Both men were very weak...
...received 10.6% of the national income; 10.2% in 1925 and 9.7% in 1926. There were, he said, 444 farm bankruptcies for every working day of 1926; agricultural population shrank 2,000,000 between 1920 and 1925, though the U. S. population increased 8,500,000 in the same period; 31,000,000 acres of land went out of agricultural use in 1920-25; and at the present rate of agricultural shrinkage the time will soon come when poor crops will mean a serious food shortage...
...pause. The moment lengthened, and Marie of Rumania seemed in her stately mourning gown more than wronged and wholly regal. Then, as HerMajesty's mood shifted, she told the correspondents that as soon as the period of mourning for her husband is over she expects to revisit...