Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present issue is intended, combined with September tax receipts, and balances now held, to cover the Treasury's financial necessities until the next quarterly tax period in December...
When he came 'back after the rest period he had a plain prose bandage on. He won the first and third games, lost the fourth and, after a heartbreaking struggle, the fifth. The sixth game of this fourth set was easy for Lacoste. And he had a lead in the seventh when Tilden started to play cannonball services. Placements boomed like round-shot. The gallery rocked and roared. Now he was off. He would keep on, he would snow the Frenchman under, he would...
...Each day we dropped for a period of from three-quarters of an hour to two hours under the sea, where Dr. Vening Meinsz of the Dutch Geodetic Committee studied gravity under the water. He made pendulum tests daily to ascertain the truth or falsity of the German theory of floating continents leaving gravity deficiencies in their wakes. I might say that we found no evidence of a deficiency of gravity to support this hypothesis. These pendulum tests bored the crew...
...charges of undue leniency in the enforcement of the Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust laws. "Not so," quoth the President. Then last week he told the press that, in the last 13 months, the Department of Justice had successfully concluded more anti-trust cases than in any previous similar period. Proceedings against monopolies had often been started before they were actually formed, compelling them to dissolve or change their charters. The most important of these suits was the breaking of the "bread trust," when the Ward Food Products Corporation and National Food Products Corporation were compelled to dissolve...
...Mary's two infant sons, at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME, May 3) the Princess Elizabeth (aged, at present, nearly four months.) During that period their royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of York, (parents of Elizabeth, "the baby who is always smiling") will journey to Australia on the cruiser Renown and there inaugurate the new Australian Capital, Canberra...