Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor reservations, would cease. There would be free trade between Puerto Rico and the U. S. for one year, 25% of existing tariff duties for the second, 50% for the third year, 75% for the fourth. On the fourth day of July, immediately following expiration of the four-year period, Puerto Rico would become independent. Thereafter Puerto Rican imports to the U. S., like those of any other foreign country, would pay the full duty...
...gold standard is dead and has been relegated for a long period to purgatory. We have no sinking fund except the balance of last year's surplus. We have gradually increased our taxation, and we have dealt with the American debt liability in a manner which no one would have tolerated in the years for which I was responsible. I was the last orthodox Chancellor of the Victorian epoch. . . . I feel I am entitled to ask the House to regard me as the last of the Mohicans...
...Science's sake one afternoon last fortnight four students at University of Southern California started to stay awake as long, as possible. Psychologist Brant Clark and his coworker, Dr. Neil Warren, wanted to clarify the physiological effects of a long period without sleep. After a day or two, attendants had such a hard time keeping one subject awake that they let him go. The other three started to play "Monopoly." They were so irascible that the psychologists deemed it best to terminate the game. After the young men had stayed awake 54½ hours they gave up, plunged into...
Stimulus for Andrews' review of sunspots comes from a letter asking for a list of sunspot maximum and minimum dates running back to 1850. A table lists them to 1610, in which time the longest period of intermission has been 15 years and the shortest...
With the Reading Period starting Monday, today will be Kitty's last appearance in class as an active member of the Faculty. His resignation, scheduled to take effect September 1, was announced in February...