Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, the attendance record of 45 children enrolled in the Settlement Kindergarten was increased by one-third over the record of a similar group the year before. We have had a baby since he was five weeks old cared for in our Day Nursery. He is now twenty months old and in almost perfect physical condition. His mother was an invalid before he was born and within the month died in the Tuberculosis Hospital...
...definitely undesirable. Expansion of acreage, however, is at least a mark of confidence in the future of agriculture. The increase was pretty well distributed throughout the country and was divided among cotton, spring wheat, potatoes, and other leading crops. A decline representing a shift to more intensive crops took place in the acreage previously devoted...
Casey pulled up that Reno hill, He tooted for the crossing with an awful shrill, The switchman knew by the engine's moans That the man at the throttle was Casey Jones. He pulled lip within two miles of the place, Number four stared him right in the face, Turned to the fireman, said; "Boys, you'd better...
...Swing-Johnson bill has passed the House. Arizona's two Senators, Ashurst and Hayden, prevented its passing the Senate only by a most heroic filibuster in the closing hours of last session. This session the bill has prime place on the Senate's calendar and Arizonans do not see how they are going to stop it again. A special engineering commission asked for by Congress last spring to make a final survey, has reported that the Swing-Johnson plans are entirely feasible, though perhaps $40,000,000 more expensive than estimated...
...chemical industry universal progress has taken place; in almost every branch France is advancing toward self-support to all practical purposes-the home market, which now is substantially larger than in 1913, absorbs 30 per cent less imports, while exports are superior by 140 per cent...