Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many occasions, testify to the readiness of Washington to arrive as rapidly as possible at a final solution of the World problem of monetary stability. . . . Also we do not doubt that Great Britain is ready, as soon as circumstances permit, to seek means for bringing about a general return to the gold standard...
...banished from Wang's house, whereupon the narrative is briefly clouded by the raven wing of grief. Hsieh is called off to the wars in the Western Regions and, like a Chinese Penelope, Precious Stream puts in the next 18 years waiting in a cave for him to return. When he does, the Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife live happily ever after. As with The Yellow Jacket a generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators by presenting the Chinese theatre...
...differential ceased to exist. Continental Can, however, probably made about $4.25 in 1935 against $4.02 in 1934. Both can stocks were favorites in the 1935 bull market. At its 1935 top, American was selling at about 25 times probable 1935 earnings and its $5 dividend represented about 3.3% return on the cost of the stock. Continental sold up to about 23 times earnings and its $3 dividend gave the investor approximately 3% on his money. The ballyhoo over canned beer- a novelty which will not really meet its test until the summer of 1936-gave both can stocks an added...
...RETURN TO PHILOSOPHY - C. E. M. Joad- Dutton ($2.50). A University of London professor does his burly British bit to disabuse amateur philosophers of the notion that there are two sides to a question. Good reading for Tories. WHERE LIFE IS BETTER - James Rorty - John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Report of "An unsentimental American journey" across the U. S., an attack on optimistic illusions. Title: satiric. STONEWALL JACKSON- G. F. R. Henderson, C. B. - Longmans, Green ($5). Reprint of the famed standard biography long used as a text in the British War College and at West Point...
Every summer the University fails to give several of its dormitory rooms the elemental care that they deserve. Every September a certain number of students return to College to find themselves lodged in sites with dirty walls and even dirtier ceilings. It is not uncommon in some of these rooms to find sizeable areas of peeling paint and bare plaster. Such conditions, in contrast with better kept accomodations, are unneccessary and distinctly unfair to the occupants...