Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Security Act is utterly inadequate and cruelly unjust," cried Washington's State Treasurer Otto Case. "The Townsend Plan will speed the return of prosperity...
...messenger promptly arrived at the clubhouse with Member Leppert's resignation in one hand and a demand for the return of the President's picture in the other. Explained Salmagundi Secretary Frank Bates...
...plans an immediate subscription drive, thinks he can double the paper's circulation (3,000) in a year, may eventually make it a daily. He plans to write no column, was persuaded to abandon editorial innovations. Friends give him six months' active charge, predict he will thereafter return to polo...
...France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant, but her friendship with Proust was particularly close. She presents him as warm, readily animated, generous, possesing a gift for mimcry. She says that after he had been malicious about some mutual acquaintance he would return the next day and compensate for his malice by reviewing the individual's good qualities. The idiosyncracies that others have ascribed to Proust- his practice of attending parties bundled in heavy overcoats, his flowery and affected speech-seem not to have bothered Marie Scheikévitch in the least...
...previous guesses (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine), Mr. Wells has pictured the world depopulated by interplanetary warfare, dominated by a monstrous chicken, consumed by bugs, perishing in foul air. In Things to Come mankind endures 30 years of war, a plague called the Wandering Sickness, a return to quasi-feudal society. After 1970, things pick up somewhat. A group of airmen band together, enforce peace and exercise a benevolent despotism. But by 2055, another revolution against peace, order and progress has broken...