Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much more interesting than these generally recognized weaknesses in American twentieth century economy are Rogers' chapters on the anti-inflationists, the perennial budget-balancers, and on the rapid growth of interstate commercial restrictions. Inflation, as exemplified by the devaluation of the dollar, he prescribes as a possible means of relieving a contracted credit situation. In a one-act play, he gives a cross section of public reasoning on the inflation question, which is dominated by Al Smith's "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars!" Possibly Professor Rogers' most valuable discussion is that which deals with the national...
Robert E. Lane '39, president of the Student Union, announced that the following statement was sent yesterday to all Eastern colleges for endorsement: "We students of American colleges protest the exclusion of Jewish students from German universities. Religious discrimination and book burning destroy twentieth century intellectual standards and degrade German scholarship...
Veritas. The Vagabond thought of it again. It was perhaps the only word that he held sacred, a sort of twentieth century Grail, yet it was more than that. It was the key to all understanding. It was something ageless, terribly elusive, retreating, perhaps. So many men, almost every man, had sought it. Had any one of them found it? Were we any nearer it than we had ever been? Were we going in the right direction? And the Vagabond found himself murmuring the words of Montaigne, "Que scais...
...Cast in the role of Sherlock Holmes in Twentieth Century-Fox's forthcoming Hound of the Baskervilles was lean, long-nosed Basil Rathbone. Watson: Nigel Bruce...
Five of a Kind (Twentieth Century-Fox) indicates that something drastic will have to be done about the Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...