Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alice Timleck, 36, mother of 17 (16 living), has also given birth to ten within the ten-year period covered by the Millar will...
...Last week the Department of Commerce totted up U. S. aviation exports for the first seven months of 1936, revealed a rise of some 30% over the same period last year. The $11,639,450 worth of orders from abroad went for 294 aircraft ($6,416,369); 409 engines ($1,902,768); spare parts ($3,100,270); parachutes ($220,043). Best U. S. customer was China, which paid $1,780,739 for 34 airplanes, 13 engines, various parts. Next biggest buyers were: Argentina ($237,670); Colombia ($148,002); Italy ($113,351); French Equatorial Africa...
Lloyd Mills, Jr. '40 of Los Angeles, California, was the first Freshman to register as the College began the long period of waiting for the Quadricentennial...
...during a period of "stabilization," copper men squeezed their price up to stratospheric levels of nearly 24? per lb. It was a cordial invitation to open every high-cost mine in the world. By 1933, the U. S. price was down to less than 5? per lb., foreign quotations...
...period after the Napoleonic Wars, Prince Metternich of Austria became an almost legendary figure as the great defender of absolute monarchy, the subtle, far-reaching, implacable enemy of revolutions wherever they appeared in Europe. Traveling about the continent, he advised the dissolution of athletic societies in Germany as potential revolutionary groups, the suppression of the Carbonari in Italy for the same reason, while his counsel was sought when students rioted, soldiers mutinied, princes conspired. To conservative historians he has been known as the most accomplished defender of the principle of divine right; to liberals he appeared the archenemy of progress...