Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scandal which broke in the Moscow Press last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...
...must not be thought that in recommending moonshine, and its sub-varieties, the drinking of colored alcohol is being encouraged; not in the least. This moonshine, particularly as made in many of the Southern and Western States, is a genuine whiskey, with a character all its own. The type with which Castor and I are most familiar is the so-called "Leadville Moon," a subtle growth of the Rockies, dark in color, shimmering in the light of a candle with a glow almost not of this earth, giving a hint of powers unknown to the average mortal. Its taste...
...delegation announced that Paraguay had broken the truce by capturing four forts after the ceaseing signal. This Paraguay's delegation hotly denied. The Conference's plenary session was promptly called off and once again the League Commission took over. The Commission announced that it would appoint a sub-commission that would plunge into the Chaco and report whether or not the truce had been violated. Its Spanish chairman set out for Montevideo to preside there at a peace conference between Paraguayan and Bolivian plenipotentiaries especially dispatched last week from Asuncion...
...important sub-sciences of biology, zoology and botany will hold separate meetings at which papers will be read, the Harvard laboratories will be inspected, and demonstrations will be given. The Section on Zoology will use a large part of the Biological Institute, while botany will probably give its demonstrations in the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory and hold its meetings in the biology building...
...class committee shall have powers and duties as follows: to determine as to reunions of the class and the conduct thereof, to appoint sub-committees from their own number or from other members of the class; to fill all vacancies in the offices of the secretary and treasurer and in their own elective positions; to remove any class officers or any of their own members; to conduct all elections to fill vacancies in their own number and determine within the limits herein prescribed the procedure for conducting such elections; to fix rules for the conduct of its own meetings...