Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt Recovery, from both Depression I and Depression II, stimulated consumer industries (liquor, shoes, automobiles, etc.) but left heavy industry (steel, coal, railroads, etc.) in the lurch, no genuine U. S. prosperity has resulted. Last week one grandiose cure-all and one specific remedy were expounded before a Senate sub-committee considering incentive taxation as a spur to industrial adoption of profit-sharing plans (TIME...
...backbone of U. S. cockfighting are the sub rosa hack fights and mains. What went on at an abandoned farmhouse outside Fayetteville, N. C. last week was typical of hundreds of bootleg cockfights that will take place every Saturday and Sunday this winter. Some 250 fans, who had reached the rendezvous by secret signs, sat on tiers of benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers...
...later version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," which is regarded as one of the most important works in the development of the modern novel, since it marks Joyce's unmistakable departure, from literary tradition, and his first experiment in recording the activity of the sub conscious mind...
...already an expert on sub-helm-hotzhian wave forms and the publisher of some 32 pamphlets on such subjects as the biological effects of high frequency radiation, but now Harry Clark, research associate in Geophysics, has entered the field of writing children's stories...
...noted with satisfaction "an increasing tendency within the University to articulate civilized values" as a deterrent to the "sub-conscious crowd mind" which prevails without them...