Word: proportionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ardent, august, the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science continued their palaverings at Oxford (TIME, Aug. 16). They palavered about: Baldness. Since thyroidal secretions stimulate both brain and hair growth, "it is not far wrong to assume" that, loss of hair benefits the intellect. Famine. Sir...
The U. S. Treasury set out to combat Franco-British propaganda against "U. S. debt Shylocking" by announcing over Mr. Mellon's signature: 1) that under the Mellon-Berenger agreement, if and when ratified, France will repay a sum roughly equivalent to only her post-War borrowings from the...
Yet even this gesture was forgotten in the flurry of electing directors. The 80 present chose 54 of their own number to direct. Of the 54 only one, C. R. Miller (C. R. Miller Mfg. Co.) was from Texas, the largest cotton-producing state in the country. He is from...
He consulted the internationally famed Belgian financiers, M. Francqui and onetime Premier Theunis. By their advice decrees were drafted providing: 1) Transfer of the state-owned telegraphs, telephones and railways to a private monopoly, which will issue 3,000,000 preferred shares at 500 francs each, the state to retain...
"I am like the animals. I can feel the future as it approaches. Some instinct guides and warns me. My blood speaks! I must listen to my blood." Thus Signor Mussolini is wont to explain the promptings of his extraordinary political intuition- promptings which he has ever translated into action...