Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispatches last week Sir Samuel's return to the National Government figured as of major import, most correspondents feeling that indirectly it sounded the knell of League Sanctions, some indulging in flat prophesy that, within some such period as two years, "Flying Sam" will have become successively first Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Prime Minister...
...Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
Standard Oil of New Jersey last week borrowed $85,000,000 for a period of 25 years. The money will be used to retire an issue of 5% preferred stock of a subsidiary called Standard Oil Export Corp. (TIME, May 18). Only $30,000,000 worth of Standard's new bonds were offered to the public, the rest having been bought by various Rockefeller interests including the Spelman Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation and the China Medical Board. But the most notable fact about this notable financing was that Standard borrowed the money at the lowest interest rate ever paid...
Unfortunately the University itself can't be as hospitable as it would like due to the fact that undergraduates will also attend the festivities and will be living in the undergraduate dormitories during this period...
...students and others connected with the instruction and research at Cambridge, expressed the opinion last night that to terminate abruptly the long-continued development of the library maintained by the School would cause an irreparable loss. They pointed out that this library has been built up over a longer period of years than any other collection on the subject and is now, they said, the most complete and therefore the most valuable in the world...