Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...granting the concessions. This gave a British company formed for the purpose a right to explore for ten years all public lands, in certain areas, and the right to perpetual ownership of any gold mines or other mines (excepting salt, oil, coal and miner 1 water) discovered during that period. The company is made a "public utility," hence freed from all taxes; Panama is to provide sanitary and police protection at the company's expense (much of the area has never even been explored); the company has permission to use streams for water power, to install telegraph, telephone...
Reminded that occasional reviewers have found parts of her book "almost lascivious," she retorted: "Mv characters and the tales of them must have been true to their period else how should they have been accepted? I dare say there were many prim and proper people living in the 18th century, but every memoir of the time is abundant proof of the licentiousness which was rife in the beau monde. Naturally I did not choose a conventional bread-and-butter miss as my heroine...
Midst the legal arguments figures were retailed. Ernst & Ernst, public accountants who audited the Ford business for those seven years on behalf of the Parker company, say Ford's net profits during 'that period totaled $702,080,001.73. Ford's auditors claim his net profits then were only $526,441,951, although his gross profits were $876,176,230. The case is expected to move up to the U. S. Court of Appeals...
Myopia opened with two scores in the first chukker, but Harvard countered by scoring first in the second chukker. The University team went scoreless for the remainder of the chukker, and for the whole of the third frame. The hosts scored in every period except the sixth, Harvard's best during which two goals were scored by the Crimson...
...aims of the School are easy to define. Its business is to give its men the broadest possible training to enable them to become competent and creative members of their profession. There is probably no period in the history of the world where the phenomena of architecture are more interesting or more promising than they are in one United States today. A vast number of men of talent and a few men of genies are producing an architectural Renaissance in America that will probably mark an epoch in the history of the five arts. It is the purpose...