Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around to signing the modest Court Bill enacted by Congress, he made it the occasion for a statement that served several political purposes: It demonstrated that he had not backed down from his original views. It peppered the bill actually passed with criticisms designed to show its total inadequacy. And finally it insisted that his own defeated plan was not just the President's desire but one of the heart's desires of the People. The President wrote...
...Leftists immediately loosed a savage but apparently unsuccessful drive on Saragossa, the Rightist advance base on the Aragon front. 200 miles to the southeast. The Basque collapse also all but completely nipped off that little Leftist island on the north coast which has so long blemished the otherwise total dominance of the northern and western half of Spain by the Rightist forces. This territory last week was populated by 14,000,000 of Spain's 25,000,000 people in 35 of her 50 provinces. To the governments of Germany, Italy. Switzerland, Albania, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala...
Part One deals with expenses. Low for total expenses, including personal and the four basic charges of tuition, lodging, board, and health, is quoted at $1000, average at $1295. College bills, known as term-bills, are payable in five installments, due at registration, the end of November, the end of January, the end of April, and July...
...course impossible to estimate exactly the number of Freshmen who will actually register, but it is expected that the registration will total about 1030, slightly below the 1038 of last year...
...Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely figured the more elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western civilization's advertisers, were an even bigger flop than cigarets. "The total consumption of foreign pills," says Crow, "probably does not average much more than one pill per annum per person." Yet curiously enough reliable insurance companies call the Chinese as good risks as English or Americans...