Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instruction period begins with marching. Follows a rehearsal of the bow. Then comes the regular dancing, fox trot, waltz and one-step. The cadets do not dance together until they have "qualified." A "plebe" must take six weeks' compulsory dancing, must dance alone for five months before he can take his qualification tests. Result: many of them follow more skillfully than they lead. A girl who knows describes Dance Master Vizay's product as follows: "They are probably the stiffest, most boardlike group of dancing-men in the world...
Peaceful infiltration was a proper term for the appearance of those yellow signs?infiltration into territory peculiarly sa. cred to Standard Oil Co. of New York Socony's declaration of war last week seemed to end the peaceful period...
Physical Exercise & Health. One hour's exercise a day for a week increases the capacity of the lungs and their ability to transfer oxygen from the air to the lungs. The maximum result develops in five to six weeks of such exercise. If after such period physical exercise is neglected altogether, the gain in power lasts for several months.?Connecticut's Edward Christian Schneider and Gordon C. Ring...
...certainty as Morgan Stocks. It shows a wide diversity of Morgan interests, a wide diversity of Morgan profit. The stock prices given are respectively the closing prices on Jan. 2, 1929 and the closing prices on Aug. 17, no allowance being made for rights issued in the intervening period...
...policies which are really one have been the guiding principles of Governor Norman for the past nine years: 1) Deflation of pound sterling after the Wartime period of inflation; 2) absolute maintenance of the pound on a gold basis once deflation was achieved (TIME, May 4, 1925). Under Governor Norman's aegis a gold reserve of £150,000,000, in the vaults of the Bank of England, was inaugurated, on the advice of the Cunliff Currency Commission that such a reserve was "desirable" (i. e. indispensable in the Commission's opinion) if the gold parity of the pound...