Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Moscow and made to jump at the commands of Stalin. Last week, with the initial stage of Provincial Autonomy set to click into action in 1937, the provisional date for full coming into effect of the Indian-Federation was set forward from 1940 to take place within a period which the Viceroy called "very short." Most observers of Indian affairs thought the date would be 1938, credited the Marquess of Linlithgow with having "saved two years" by his fireside diplomacy and intelligent firmness...
This was enough to make U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and other Free Traders generally shed tears of joy. It may mark the end of the post-War craze for excessive Nationalism and usher in a hopeful period of world economic appeasement, freer trade and resultant Prosperity...
...Class I U. S. railroads* from $42,000,000 in August 1935 to $64,000,000 in August 1936, a gain of more than 50%. For the first eight months of this year total operating net income was $364,000,000 as against $263,000,000 in the same period last year. Profits have become a reality for some carriers, are shortly expected by others. Even those in the hands of the courts-a classification which includes nearly one-third of all U. S. mileage -now have hopes of completing reorganization before the next depression. Brightly reflected in the price...
...father reveals an unpaternal interest in her. She gets a job in a textile mill, learns fast. Kit is befriended by a hard, homely girl, feels humiliated by being called a "lint head" by the townspeople, is loved by a boy dying of tuberculosis. It is at this period of her life that she meets the young man who wants to be a horse. He has practiced until he can run on all fours and leap fences. As she watches him, Kit wonders if all men want to be horses. Sometimes Kit speaks to Author Anderson. "We howled," Kit tells...
Harvard's band, a century or more strong, appeared towards dusk to try out their rhythmic notes in preparation for a mid-period tussle today with the Brown syncopates. As the climactic event of the program came the feline ramblings of a coffee-colored alley-snifter who communed with Wes Fesler's 70-yard punts and finally succumbed to the enticement of Frank Ryan's puss-calls...