Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nineteen men have won Prize Scholarships from various schools, and twenty two will be the holders of Cambridge or Buckley awards...
...about Bazaine's blunder and he knows also the history of the first Napoleon, who never made such mistakes. Napoleon frequently carried his eagles through the Black Forest into southern Germany. Ulm, Ratisbon and Hohenlinden in the South German Basin were all sites of Napoleonic victories against the various coalitions of Austria, Russia and England. A few miles from Ulm, at Blenheim, the Duke of Marlborough won his "famous Victory" in 1704-the victory over the French that so nonplussed the grandfather of Little Peterkin in Robert Southey's poem. To prevent a new war from being carried...
...That the use of various seals, coupled with assurances appearing throughout the magazine, "mislead . . . the . . . public into the erroneous belief that all articles advertised . . . or articles which bear the seal in one of its several forms, have been scientifically tested in ... laboratories. . . . In truth and in fact, all the articles . . . have not been tested and approved by any scientific laboratory...
Radio call letters were first recognized in world broadcasting in the Treaty of Berlin in 1906, the first world radio treaty. In 1927, at the International Radio Convention in Washington, they were standardized, with various initial letters and combinations assigned to various nations. These were most recently brought up to date by the Cairo conference last year. Assigned to the U. S. are initial letters W, K and N (for naval communications). Germany has the letter D (for Deutschland), France F, Great Britain G, Italy I, Russia R and U, Japan J, China the letters XGA through XUZ. Mexico...
There were two reasons for this: 1) The warring nations were forced to get along with old clothes, to drink coffee substitutes, to cut down smoking. But they desperately needed food and war supplies. The relative demand for various goods had completely changed. 2) The costs of transportation changed just as radically. There were few ships available to carry cotton, coffee and tobacco. More important, the cost of insuring these staples in transit through mine-and-submarine-infested waters rose to affect commerce in the same way as if new tariff barriers had been erected. Rubber, for example, zoomed...