Word: rigorousity
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The Drawbacks. Investment trusts have had their own ups & downs. In the '203 they grew to a $7 billion business which the 1929 crash almost wiped out. Even some that survived were guilty of sharp practices and management abuses which brought on a five-year investigation by the SEC...
Most listeners thought they knew the singing-the pillow-soft pianissimos, the warm and velvety power even at full voice-even though at first some did not recognize the singer. In five months, tiny (4 ft. 8½ in.), once-tubby (201 lbs.) Dorothy Maynor had lost 72 pounds by...
King George VI officially turned 53 last week (his real birthday is Dec. 14). Some 1,500 soldiers of His Majesty's Guards were given a special ration of barley sugar, designed to carry the Guardsmen through the rigorous birthday ceremony (see cut), the first full-dress "Trooping the...
Life in the big, three-story phalanstery was rigorous and simple, but intellectually stimulating. Children received "progressive" education. Women were accorded the same rights and wages as men, wore bloomers (which shocked citizens of nearby Red Bank) and did honorable work in the fields. Members gathered almost nightly for plays...
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