Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incomplete later figures suggested that the British subject still led in being most heavily taxed. Over a long period the average Briton has become so accustomed to this that he often, half-humorously, half-proudly, boasts about his proven ability to thrive while carrying the world's heaviest per capita tax load...
...same short period the Baltic Fleet, backbone of the Soviet Navy, has had three different commanders: Sivkov, Issakov, and now Levchenko. Eight grand figures of the Soviet armed forces signed their names as judges to the condemnation of Marshal Tukachevsky, and of these eight at least four had by last week been purged. A fifth, Goriachev, figures in Moscow as in "doubtful standing...
...novel Emile, wherein that 18th-Century romantic tried to persuade French mothers to nurse their own children. Persuaded in his turn, Needham bequeathed money for an annual prize ($100 to $200) for the healthiest white Louisville baby nine to 15 months old. "nourished by its mother for a period ol at least nine months...
...MacCollum's opinion, lop ears are not due to improper care in childhood but are a congenital defect. A three-month fetus has lop ears, but if the baby is born with them it shows that something happened to the ears' development during the pre-natal period...
...sequence in which they followed each other was merely a matter of taste. An atonal melody was governed, not by the rules of musical syntax, but by the rules of eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Composer Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps became the most imitated composition of its period; Composer Schönberg's declaration of independence influenced nearly half the younger composers of Europe...