Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although no other U. S. preparatory school was afloat this week, many of them will not stay in the same place all term...
...sums of migratory capital have charged about the world like tons of drifting cannon balls rolling loose in the hold of a storm-tossed economic ship. Last summer the Department of Commerce estimated that foreigners had $1,200,000,000 deposited in U. S. banks and invested in short term securities, had $2,951,000,000 in U. S. stocks and bonds. Economists have long been alive to the danger to U. S. securities markets if the tempestuous lashings of unruly European currencies should send these cannon balls crashing back to Europe...
...addition to such boons as AAA, FCA, RA which he has in the past three years offered Agriculture, in a swift play from Hyde Park he upped this already respectable ante. He appointed a committee headed by Rural Electrification's Morris L. Cooke to figure out a long term anti-drought program. He appointed another committee headed by Secretary Wallace to draw up plans for some form of crop insurance on at least one or two major crops. He wrote to the Senate and House Agriculture Committees urging legislation to provide easy credit to enable tenants to become farm...
...Published in the U. S. last month, this is an omnibus memoir of his experiences, theories, accomplishments. The author follows the terminology of both spiritualists and scientific investigators by not calling anything"supernatural." For those phenomena which cannot be explained by the known laws of Nature he reserves the term supernormal. He considers that at least 999 out of 1,000 of the wonders produced at spiritualistic seances are tricks. What will surprise many a reader is that, with his almost endless experience of frauds, Mr. Price is willing to accept one phenomenon out of 1,000 as genuine...
...collection is always snapped up on the first lay of distribution, and the demand always exceeds the supply, according to Museum officials. While they last two pictures are given to every student upon presentation of hits Burear's card. The prints must be returned before the end of the term in June, and the mortality rate is very low, only two fatalities resulting last year...