Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent $255,334,670. Since 1920 its trustees, believing the future "will find means to provide for itself," have been giving away the principal as well as the income of this fund.* Last week President Raymond Elaine Fosdick reported that the General Education Board has only $8,700,000 still unpledged, will soon be liquidated...
...hours later, still yawing slightly in this unreal course of events, Tex had in his otherwise empty pockets the ownership papers to the 63-foot Winnetta, a 35-year-old schooner which in her $75,000 prime had once raced her sticks off on the Great Lakes, in more recent years had been the little-used property of fiftyish John S. Nairns, an inventor preoccupied with developing an airscrew for propelling ships. Inventor Nairns had sold the Winnetta's motor, but he still had the masts and sails in storage. Last week, lucky Tex scrubbed and buffed away...
...created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like the farmer he was born in Kansas...
Federal Reserve member banks outside of New York City reported the trend of commercial loans was still up. But in New York, where Big Business does most of its borrowing, they dropped for the fourth week in succession, a $33,000,000 decline erasing all but $4,000,000 of the August rise...
...French, Spanish and Latin, with toy words and a freakish kind of lustful baby talk. "She would not suffer that je should poner my mano above ses jupes which je endeavoured," he wrote of one modest soul. But although Librarian Turner transcribed such passages, Pepys's secrets are still reasonably safe 270 years after the night Mrs. Pepys caught him with the charming Deb Willet. Talking things over with publishers and college authorities, Librarian Turner decided that the new edition too should be expurgated...