Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have distributed the relief available in a way which will give the greatest benefit 'to the greatest number, and which by increasing the purchasing power of the people will stimulate trade and industry, and I have kept in mind always the vital importance of maintaining the national credit, on which the very existence of the country depends." "Hear, hear!" interjected Austen Chamberlain, twice Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...mental invalid and of a prison being properly a remedial hospital for his cure which would have aroused nothing but blank amazement in the minds of Judge Jeffrey's and his contemporaries, is accepted at the present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching a man a trade and allowing him to work for a living while under confinement is a much better way of moulding his future reactions to society than forcing him to brood in solitary confinement for a period of dull and fruitless years...
...University Press entered five books in a recent exhibition held by the Ameri- Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City for trade editions. One of these, "Dr. Johnson", a study in eighteenth century humanism by Percy H. Houston G'06, Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, was awarded a medal for excellence in the general quality of the edition. A similar exhibition has been held for several years as part of the society's endeavor to cultivate printing by bringing together and comparing all the trade edition books of the year that claim distinction. Books which...
Piper, the Worcester pitcher, was master of the situation throughout. He al- spectacular work. The Indian traders had used this trade-route for centuries, and we found many of their original holy books, written on long paper scrolls, in the original Sanskrit, or translated by medieval scholars into Chinese or Turki. It was significant because of the light it shed on the influence these traders, straggling periodically over the mountain passes, had on the art of the early Chinese...
...turned from this trade-route at its western end and followed the Black River north until it became so low that we had to dig in its bed to get water. After several days of most arduous travelling, we reached Edsina, the famous town where Marco Polo prepared for his forty-day hike to the palace of the Great Khan at Kara Korum. One of the strange encroachments of the desert has left the town deserted now, but its huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains...