Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government should set up a loan fund and a farm board to administer it. He has been unwilling that the U. S. should engage to administer the equalization fee, which he construes as involving price-fixing and as putting the Government directly into the buying and selling of various farm commodities...
Increased lethal effect is obtained by softening the nose of the bullet to make it spread at impact. Steel jacketed bullets shoot straightest and farthest but bore clean holes instead of smashing a wide wound. Various powder loads have various killing power, but following is a rough table of the calibres and types of bullets generally recommended for various types of killing by rifle...
...rush hours. Why, wondered economists, would it not be to the city's and the I. R. T.'s mutual advantage to allow more than one fare, keeping a 5-cent minimum? The London Underground and the Paris Metro and Nord-Sud sell tickets of various classes. Why not have 10-cent or even 25-cent turnstiles for thousands of riders who would pay to escape the cattle-like stampede? The extra revenue would provide extra cars to accommodate the 5-centers. Why not subway Pullmans...
...further section of the grandstand and retain one's composure or peace of mind. But it is extremely difficult to retain the aforesaid state when the enemy is desecrating the final station with foreign spikes while the local representatives, by an unkind turn of fate, remain fastened to the various way-stations along the route...
...those who may tire of waiting for the finishes of the various boat races to be run off Saturday in the Harvard-Cornell-M. I. T. regatta on the Charles River Basin, an unusual means of diversion will be extended. Under the auspices of the Tech Boat Club, a tea dance will be held from 3 until 6 o'clock, in the Walker Memorial, for Harvard, M. I. T. and Cornell students...