Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wired from Mexico City: "One can very easily-with figures -prove that Mexico is insolvent. Quotations on the Paris Bourse show that some Tsarist Russian bonds are worth more than those of certain Mexican issues." The gold and silver reserves of the Bank of Mexico were used up last spring trying to keep the Mexican peso worth 28? . It has now crashed to 20? . Mexicans last week tried to find takers who would accept 210 paper pesos in exchange for one 50-peso silver coin...
...cradle of fanatical Shiahism. A wide majority of the illiterate population are Shiites but even the literate Government clique-including youthful King Ghazi, who belongs to the opposed Sunnite sect-sympathize with the Arabs of Palestine. Anti-Jewish propaganda is, in the circumstances, anti-British propaganda. Last spring both Sunnites and Shiites relished a poster depicting John Bull holding a pair of scales in which an Arab, an Indian and a Negro in one tray were outweighed by a fat, long-nosed...
Europe stood by watchfully but refused to be seriously alarmed. Military experts reported that the German Army probably needed exercise because: 1) its march into Austria last spring revealed several technical weaknesses in its service of supply, etc.; 2) its reservists, following post-War disarmament, are just now beginning to reach significant numbers and need training. Last week Europe was in a mood to let Adolf Hitler exercise his boys and put on a show...
Even schoolboys know that birds mate in the spring, but even a bright schoolboy could hardly tell why. Biologist James C. Perry of Cincinnati's Xavier University, no schoolboy by a long shot, was convinced last week that it is not so much the flowers that bloom in the spring as what birds eat that affects their mating cycle. Other investigators had advanced the theory that increased exposure to sunlight in the spring is the sex stimulus. This theory they checked experimentally by inducing sex gland activity with artificial illumination. It looked as if the light stimulated the front...
...city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds properly starts. To Maurice, fresh from Bolshoye Bikovo, where the streets were a quagmire most of the time, where the peasants killed their colts every spring and lived in one-room huts with pigs, chickens and vast swarms of flies, where no one had ever heard of such products of civilization as underwear, toothbrushes or toilets, "Mount Brookville" was wonderful...