Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before his rather dramatic exit, Shaw chose to rationalize his recent actions and to explain why he was heroically leaving now in an article about the business in general in the Saturday Evening Post...
...preamble of the resolution, the Council suggested that a precedent for the gift of land lies in Harvard's recent donation and maintenance of an X-ray machine at the Municipal Hospital, which shows that the University is "willing to cooperate with the city on matters concerning the health, welfare, and general improvements of Cambridge...
...role of FDR enchanter previously played by guitar-plucking Will Woodin of American Car & Foundry. Woodin economy soon was forgotten, Woodin himself died, but left behind in the Treasury was an American Car & Foundry alumnus, Walter Joseph Cummings. Last week Mr. Cummings was conspicuous for a second time in recent years...
...ancient saying, sell when the good news is out, might account for these typical examples of recent stockmarket behavior. But certainly the stockmarket which bounded ahead enthusiastically when war commenced, last week showed a phenomenal indifference, if not distaste, for good news...
...increase of shopkeepers in recent years has increased the use of money, instead of rice, as a medium of exchange. More moneyed farmers may now hire labor instead of exchanging it. In this rural microcosm of Japan, Embree distinguishes six classes: upper upper, lower upper, upper middle, lower middle, upper lower, lower lower. Some 27% of households have at least one servant, 26% include someone educated beyond the village school, 12% subscribe to newspapers. Suye Mura has one motorcycle, no automobiles, 160 bicycles, four sewing machines, five radios, 20 phonographs, and one telephone (in the village office...