Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Student Council, which controls all things political among the Yardlings, conservatively postponed the elections for one month, by that token acknowledging the use of class officials to be negligible. This year the development of the Union Committee should be carried to its logical conclusion with the total abolition of the elections. The members of the Union Committee are well chosen, representing nearly all the halls, both private and public schools, commuters and residents, the East and the West. Until the time, which will come with Student Council elections in the spring of the Sophomore year, when the class...
...Henderson, who sat for Britain on the Commission of Ambassadors which settled the final territorial details of the Munich peace. About the best he could say was that whereas at Godesberg the Führer demanded 12,000 square miles of Czechoslovak territory, Germany has now received a grand total of only 10,885 square miles. More heartening was word that Germany would like to cut in with Britain on the forthcoming U. S.-British trade agreement. Germany would take what U. S. and Dominions raw materials Britain could not absorb, pay the British for it with German machinery, chemicals...
Excess bank reserves climbed to $3,270,000,000, next-to-highest total on record. In short, the supply of money had never been so plentiful. And when bank clearings reached a 1938 peak and bank debits rose a whopping $1,000,000,000 in the last two weeks, it was clear that the public was using that money supply...
...known high-brow composer now living is probably Russian-born Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff. His crashing Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, first introduced to the U. S. in 1898 by his friend Pianist Alexander Siloti, immediately started to outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...
...usual Harvard will be outweighed, 2089 total pounds to 1989, a nice round 100 lbs. Every one of the opposing linemen are six feet tall or more, but tops in Bengal beef are 6 foot 5 inch left tackle Tierney (226 lbs.) and left guard Herring 6 foot 1 inch...