Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a chorus of no more than Old Howardly denuded lasses, regularly featured performers at a downtown night club, who go through intricate girations for the entertainment of the spectators. They, more nearly conforming with the accepted standards of entertainment, are the least pleasing unit of the spectacle...
...Anonyme, Germans in Ford Motor Co. A. G., Spaniards in Ford Motor Iberica Dutchmen in N. V. Nederlandsche Ford Automobielfabriek. In the U. S. there are two Ford stocks traded on the New York Curb Exchange-Ford Motor Co. of Canada and Ford. Motor Co., Ltd., the British unit whose ? shares are bought & sold as "depositary certificates...
...California has been either first or second in every Poughkeepsie regatta, against the best competition in the U. S. California crews won the Olympic championship in 1928 and 1932 but this year Washington's Coach Al Ulbrickson felt sure of eight sophomores he had retained as a unit from last year's powerful freshman boat. Said he, before the boats lined up last week on Oakland Estuary: "This is potentially the greatest crew I ever coached...
...work in terms of metabolism used in psychological experimentation." The third group made its living on a "learning machine." That, explained Dr. Lorge, is an elaborate contrivance "which subjects simultaneously a group of 13 to a learning situation in which stimuli are presented and each subject makes responses." A "unit" of right responses wins a nickel. A wrong answer may bring a fine...
...that year the late King Albert was persuaded by Finance Minister Francqui that Belgium's currency, then sunk to about one-ninth of its pre-War value, should be officially "revalued" (i. e. devalued) and anchored for 25 years on gold. At the same time a new unit of currency, the belga, worth five Belgian francs, was adopted for dealings in foreign exchange, but in Belgium francs are still the currency...