Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face of the matter, it seems rather ridiculous that the Conference should set to work now that the emergency has passed in almost all the branches of agriculture save one. Yet the program laid out by the President for the Conference calls for a permanent prevention of emergencies rather than the solution of one existing problem. Already Leland Stanford University, in a review of the last crop year, is crying warning to wheat farmers not to increase their production?that their profit this year is an accident dependent on an unusually good crop in this country and crop failure elsewhere...
...Association for the Advancement of Science is an eminent body of scientists containing many eminent expanders of evolution. On the program of its annual meeting is an address on Darwin and Bryan. Last week, as the annual meeting was about to open in Washington, the Society received an application for membership, accompanied by a check for the usual $5.00 membership fee, from William Jennings Bryan...
Such, at least, is the way the program feels about the leading lady in "Cobra", now playing at the Plymouth Theatre. The audience was obviously much of the same mind, for it found the emotions anything but secret, and led on the consuming passion with relish. The audience devoured the Cobra's every move; it tolerated the other players. After her cremation, the other players. After her cremation, the situation became powerful enough to keep everything on the run, including the playwright. He put up a game fight, however, until the situation got the better...
...Farmer-minded" is a good adjective, but it needs specific definition for the public. There is perhaps no better exposition of what that compound word means than the program laid down by the convention which used the word...
...industries, our productive facilities still outrun our normal demand, We have apparently entered a cycle of small industrial profits and intense industrial competition. Manufacturers are now wondering whether the first three months of 1925 null witness a repetition of the preceding two years or whether a more moderate industrial program will prevent overproduction next spring...