Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ross formula called for power rates high enough to pay 3½% interest on the Government's investment and to pay back that investment over a period of 40 years. In this formula, however, there was a big joker. The Government investment would not be the total cost of the development but only that part allocated to power. The rest would be charged off to flood control or navigation. On the Tennessee River, Wilson Dam, for instance, is valued at $33,000,000 but for yardstick purposes the power investment is considered to be only $22,000,000. Division...
...office to add an item to the Stengel legend. All of them understood that President Quinn's first two choices for manager of the Bees were Donie Bush, manager of the minor-league Minneapolis Millers, and Gabby Hartnett, catcher for the Chicago Cubs, who for a brief period last summer, managed the Cubs while they were topping the National League. But neither of them was available. So President Quinn picked up his telephone and asked the operator to get him Mr. C. D. Stengel at his oil field in Omaha. Tex. "Casey," President Quinn called into the instrument, "want...
...Philadelphia public schools, put them at his congregation's expense in the swank Episcopal Academy on City Line Avenue. Further weeding brought the group down to 20. Dr. Mockridge taught the boys the Episcopal service, had them attend his church in a body every Sunday during their training period. Last week for the first time St. James's congregation heard its protégés sing so ably that Choirmaster Alexander McCurdy announced plans for a difficult César Franck mass next Ascension Sunday...
...quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable." As a profound student of evolution, he knows that in so highly evolved an animal as man evolution does not stand still. The species either progresses or degenerates. Since he discerns no improvement since the end of the Glacial Period and since the signs of deterioration are already apparent to his trained eye, he concludes that the present course of man is downhill...
...initial Harvard march for a score was a thing of beauty and a joy up to the last period of the game. It was Pope, Foley, Foley to Green, Pope, Pope, Pope, Harding, Pope, and then Harding went over for the score in the first few minutes of the game...