Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumped into third place. A growing eagerness for German, and more probably the necessity of filling Language. Requirements forced German A up one place, into fourth, with a total of 455 entered. A surprising drop, part of which may go to Philosophy A, put Mathematics A down into sixth place with only 443 enrolled as compared with a last year's total of 507. Philosophy, while gaining a good many men still held its own at the seventh level. Some surprise was felt at the rise of Astronomy 1 to 44 students, but it still remains number...
Russia may be facing her worst food shortage since 1921 (TIME, Sept. 12).* She may be turning the lives of millions of comrades topsy turvy (see above). But Russia remained last week the land of outrageous contrasts, the One Sixth of the World which dwarfs mere generalities. Russia was making one architect so wealthy and so happy last week that his good luck gave him the jitters...
Grinning toothily, waving a crumpled hat, shouting "bully" as much like his father as possible, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. has participated in every national campaign since 1920. That year, campaigning in the West, he flayed the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his sixth cousin, as follows: "He's a maverick! He doesn't bear the brand of our family." In 1924 when "Teddy" was running for the New York Governorship, "Frank" returned the compliment by flaying his remote relative's "wretched record" as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the oil scandals. At that point...
...lines. Into McCall Co. as president then came William Bishop Warner, now also chairman of American Woolen Co. One of his first acts was to lift the lid of the editorial budget. For the next twelve years McCall's zoomed. Its lineage last year was 7,718,000, sixth in rank of all U. S. magazines; its circulation 2,507,000, of which more than 1,000,000 was newsstand...
...over $2,294,000,000 since the last year end. Deposits were $17,461,000,000, a drop of $1,783,000,000. Loans and discounts had shrunk $1,639,000,000 to $10,282,000,000. National banks held $3,352,000,000 of Government securities, one-sixth of the total U. S. debt. Of cash and balances with other banks including the Federal Reserve they had $3,445,000,000. Depositors maintained 14,150,000 savings accounts...