Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first year under AAA II which was designed to keep five major crops up to "parity prices." only one crop (at average farm prices), tobacco, is selling above parity. Corn, at 41? rice at 58?, cotton at .08?, all stand just above half. Wheat, at 52?, is less than half. For the first time in five years farm income has backslid-10%-to $7,625,000,000. Over Franklin Roosevelt's budgetary wails, Congress voted a $212,000,000 appropriation for direct parity payments plus the $500,000,000 earmarked for soil conservation payments; but in the election farm...
...deep drifts of artificial snow, cold storage poultry, painfully quaint mannerisms and hideously false joviality which load this tender fable, certain genuine bits stand out by contrast. One is Reginald Owen's well modulated performance as Scrooge, which should long remain a model for enthusiastic neophyte actors who essay this role in high-school productions of the same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least...
Seymour Howard 2G, chairman of the society, indicated that his group was ready to aspect the University's terms, but would welcome any change in its stand...
Coach Wes Fesler will undoubtedly stand pat on the quintet which rallied to gain the great victory over Northeastern's Huskies, 31 to 26. This means that Charley Lutz and Fred Heckel will be at the forwards, Homer Peabody at center, while Lupe Lupien and Sam White will hold down the guard positions...
...most important aspect of this questionnaire, and the thing that in the light of the pre-election foolishness will be hardest to prove to the student body, is that the Cambridge police stand ready to help them at all times. A few patrolmen, it is true, may enjoy baiting the students, but the majority of the force respect students as much as any other group of residents. Statements from Headquarters officials vouch for this attitude. The attitude at Headquarters is one of cooperation and assistance that should not be spurned by the University. If the prompt action taken...