Word: tween
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a building termite-proof costs only $50 to $100 during construction, may run from $500 to $2,000 afterwards. Timbers should be treated with insecticide, a metal sheet or other barrier placed be tween ground and wood. This bars out insects in the ground, kills those already in the wood by keeping them away from ground moisture. Foundation timbers, basement walls and flooring should be kept dry. Hating light, termites build mud-covered runways up concrete foundation walls. Lately some builders, believing the insects will not cross them, have used glass bricks to top their walls...
Last week President Charles Humphrey Hamill of the Orchestral Association reassured those worried about the future of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, endangered last spring by the bickerings be tween its backers and the Chicago Federation of Musicians. The season will open Oct. 14, with Chicago's beloved Frederick August Stock on the podium once more...
Aboard the Niobe only the enlisted crew saw either the plane or the Therese Russ. The cadets, 50 boys of good German families chosen by competitive examination from nearly 2,000 candidates, were sitting at forms in a cramped 'tween-decks classroom studying the Theory of Navigation. Scratching their heads they puzzled problems of Greenwich Mean Time...
President Hoover found himself in an uncomfortable position last week as a result of the Lausanne Conference at which German Reparations were scaled down to $714,000,000 or 1? on the original $1 (see p. 13). Officially the U. S. Government refuses to recognize any connection be tween Germany's indemnity to the Allies and the Allies' repayment of War Debts to the U. S. Yet all the world knows that Reparations are the source of European debt payments to the U. S. The President has declared against cancellation but not against reconsideration of debtor nations...
...have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely be captured. Be tween love and duty Devi Das did not long waver. He went to the railroad station in New Delhi where a squad of police men pounced upon him, clapped him into jail. Said he: "While I am deeply at tached to my fiancee, it would not be right...