Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas recess this year is to include one week and four days of class-time; twelve days in all. This is about the usual length. One is just beginning to fill one's soul with plum pudding and Father Noel when it is time to return to the dismal white wastes broken only by the peak of Memorial Hall. After the briefest snatch of relief, festivities are suddenly exchanged for facts, conviviality for colloquy. And because the recess is so short, the Yuletide days of a Harvard man are the acme of strenuous relaxation and busy indolence. The student comes...
...That there can be no real recovery until the fears of business have been allayed through the granting of a breathing spell to industry, and a recess from further experimentation until the country can recover its losses...
Senator Robinson: Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that during the recess of the Senate the Vice President may have permission to sign the Legislative Appropriation Bill...
Senator: And now, Mr. President, I move the Senate stand in recess until noon Monday...
...going to propound a unanimous-consent agreement, but I am going to say a word by way of parliamentary inquiry, that the Senate recess until n o'clock and vote on the question now before the Senate at 12 o'clock. I would be willing...