Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the period of American intervention (1917-20) over $7,000,000,000 was spent by Great Britain in the United States. Of that $7,000,000,000 we borrowed $4,000,000,000.and provided an additional $3,000,000,000 from our own independent resources. We spent on the two items of munitions and foodstuffs alone more than the $4,000,000,000 we borrowed from the United States" [i. e. the U. S. loans to Britain were shot up and eaten in the "Common Cause," and "ought" (in British eyes) to be canceled at least in part...
From the kaleidoscope of French politics a myriad names are projected daily, hourly, upon the news. Amid this evanescence and confusion only a few personalities are really permanent. Since the War exactly ten Frenchmen have held the 4 Presidencies and 17 Premierships of that period...
Dodge Bros., said President E. G. Wilmer last week, earned $15,801,364 net profits the first half-year ($15,843,259 same period last year); made net sales of $156,041,866 ($117,045,569 last year); sold 207,115 cars and trucks (138,767 last year); had $19,952,511 in cash...
...tenable only if the contests of the last few years are taken into account. Beloit College won the Interstate Contest in 1899 and again in 1902, 1903 and 1904-four times in six years, and three times consecutively, drawing far ahead of DePauw, the main contender up to that period. Beloit won again in 1908, and has had two victories since then, if memory serves me correctly. Wabash has a fair claim to such a "crown" for the present college generation, or decade, but its record still falls short of that set by Beloit 20 years ago, as also...
Theodore, the eldest, 39, and now resuming business affairs* after sundry candidacies and appointments in politics. Last spring he found some Marco Polo sheep (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE). Last week he was assigned, as colonel, to a 15-day training period at Plattsburg...