Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point is that the Aberdeen-Angus breed has its origin in "time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," and is the carrier of dominant characteristics of a kind desirable in a breed of beef cattle, intensified by a longer period of breeding like to like than is the case with other beef breeds...
...flaw critics have pointed out in the Act is its scheme for a full reserve for old-age insurance to be built up during a long period while revenues from taxes on employers and employes exceed disbursements. By 1980 this vast coalbin is scheduled to hold a reserve of $47,000,000,000. The effect of locking up $47,000,000,000 of public purchasing power would be highly deflationary. Actually, the money is not being locked up but lent to the Government. This means that by 1980 the Government will owe the Social Security Reserve 21% more than...
Last week hard-pressed President Smetona decreed a six-month emergency period "for the protection of the state." Students at Kaunas, Lithuanian capital, rioted against the Government; anti-Semitic outbreaks occurred there and at Memel. At Memel, the Directory dismissed Lithuanian State police, replaced them with Memel Nazis. The day did not seem far off when Nazi agents, using Memel as a base, may harass President Smetona into resigning or recalling Valdemaras. In either case the probable result will be the same: the Lithuanian Government will follow Hitler's orders, will accept German annexation of Memel, and, with Vilna...
...period of pioneering in the U. S. was the Covered Wagon Era. Corresponding period in South Africa was the Great Trek. Last week in Pretoria, South Africa, the 100th Anniversary of the Great Trek was celebrated in a wild clash of nostalgic happiness and partisan bitterness...
...buoyant. In Paris Glackens enjoyed himself painting public gardens, cafés, dance halls in the general manner of Degas and Manet. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1895. Among 97 canvases hung at the Whitney show were several glamor paintings of this period done after Glackens returned to Manhattan: Mouquin's Restaurant, Hammerstein's Roof Garden, sledding in Central Park...