Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's plea for crop insurance comes as a pleasant indication that the long-heralded farm program is not an idle promise, and that something will at least be attempted before the next harvest period. Never has assistance to the farmer been so vital to the welfare of the whole nation as at the present time. With returning industrial activity and the mid-winter flood disasters combining to make many a farmer's prospect seem proportionately gloomier than that of his countrymen, some measure is inevitable, and the one suggested by the President appears logical and sound...
Delicate measurements, impossible before, show that humidity causes increased loss of power over a period of time compared with the action when the insulator was kept "clean...
...Cooper as the far-famed, hard riding, Wild Bill Hickock, and Jean Arthur as the colorful figure of Calamity Jane, the picture needs only the barest outline of a plot to make it a huge success, but "The Plainsman" has more than this. It embraces the condensation of the period of frontier development from the eve of Lincoln's assassination to and through the reign of Buffalo Bill Cody...
Devoid of the usual superfluity of spectacle which characterizes the great majority of DeMilfe flascos, the picture is built around the background of the lawless and bloody period of American history when each move to the westward was greeted by wholesome bloodshed and torture from the Indians. Treachery on the part of eastern gun manufactures who send large shipments of a new and improved model of rifle to the Indians, leads to the great action scene where trick photography has achieved the most effective moving attack we have seen in years...
Arlington opened the scoring in the first period, with the Crimson retaliating soon after by shoving two past the goalie. Play was fairly even in the second frame. Late in the third, the Yardlings went on a scoring spree, clinching the victory with three more goals...