Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve Student Council Scholarships totaling $535 to apply on the January term bill were awarded yesterday at a special lunchtime meeting of the Council in Lowell House...
...head of New Zealand's Government when the world depression hit bottom in 1931 was Prime Minister George William Forbes, whose favorite cry was "Stabilize the Budget." He helped to stifle the 1932 Auckland riot with British bluejackets from H. M. S. Philomel and with 1,200 special constables swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger...
Importers of goods from nations with which Argentina has an unfavorable trade balance-the U. S., Italy, Japan, Sweden and others-were ordered to procure special permits in order to bring in goods, effective January 1. The theory was that total value of permits would not be allowed to exceed the total value of Argentine exports to those countries. The catch has been that no permits for imports of U. S. automobiles, foodstuffs, tobacco, sporting goods, toys, etc. have been issued by the Government. General Motors Corp., for instance, with only a three months' supply of cars on hand...
...blocks and tin soldiers, read sense into his harsh animal cries. On Sundays he would lead the shuffling child, who was almost a head taller than he, past neighbors' eyes into the park. Both Louis Greenfield and his wife, Anna, stinted themselves, sent the boy to hospitals, neurologists, special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked him every few weeks. At first Louis and Anna refused to believe the doctors' verdict that their Jerry would never grow beyond the mental age of two. Later they had to accept...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...