Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside out to show the red lining, and grinned broadly. Workmen, feeling frightfully self important, chopped the crowns and shields off public buildings. In the midst of the celebration, some far-sighted official sent a fire engine to the Royal Palace. The firemen posted up handbills: PEOPLE OF MADRID RESPECT THIS BUILDING. IT IS YOURS...
...corporate retrench- ment, little discussed. Westinghouse and Eastman Kodak in their factories have been recent converts to the five-day week. Some Ford plants run on a five-day, some on a three-and-one-half-day schedule. But the five-day week of 1931 differs in one notable respect from the five-day week of 1928 and 1929: The Bull Market theory was to cut the time but not the wages; the Bear Market theory is to cut both...
That Harvard's new Icelandic collection is "The second largest in the country, and the best in respect to its controversial political pamphlets and ephemeral material such as news broadsides," was the opinion expressed during a recent visit by Halldor Hermannsson, curator of the Cornell Icelandic collection and recognized as the greatest authority in America on the subject...
Mourned President Hoover: "His happy character, his sterling honesty, his courage in public questions endeared him and held the respect not alone of his myriad of friends but of the country at large. His passing is a loss to the nation...
President Hoover has not yet been burned in effigy at Moscow, differing in this respect from Aristide Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain* and the President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek. But last week both Mr. Hoover and ex-Chairman Alexander Legge of the U. S. Federal Farm Board became in Moscow popular candidates for stuffing & burning. Reason: "The Hoover Plot against the Soviet Union...