Word: q
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Q.: What is the Geneva Convention...
...comprise a diary which records Napoleon's conversations throughout the exile, and a regular summary of daily court life. But everything was written in a private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...
Final exams will take place before an audience in the Lamont Forum Room at 7 p.m. tonight, when five undergraduates participate in an English Q "Election Year" Colloquium. The five, members of Associate Professor Frederick C. Packard's advanced Public Speaking course will be graded on their 30 minute talks on 1952 campaign issues...
...affect, but I argued against it as being dishonest. I was told that it was a small tax and should not worry anyone, even the millionaires, but I insisted that it was essentially dishonest and could become confiscatory. Nobody heeded me. I was right. Poor old John Q. Public, the perennial sucker-who almost elected W. J. Bryan, who elected F. D. Roosevelt again and again and again, and who put Harry Truman into office-had better wake...
...entitled to protection "from exploitation on the part of the predatory price-cutter," just as labor is protected by minimum-wage laws. Retorted the American Farm Bureau Federation's Matt Trigg: Such devices provide "an umbrella for the inefficient" and are inconsistent with a free, competitive economy. Echoed Q. (for Quentin) Forrest Walker, economist for Macy's: "The simple truth is that no group fights for price-fixing privileges except to make prices higher than they would be under free and open competition." Then Celler's group surprised everybody, delighted the Fair Traders. It also tentatively decided...